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Outdoor Pongal ritual on a paved courtyard: a man in white dhoti and shirt with rudraksha mala kneels at a clay pot of boiling milk on a brick hearth, flames beneath, sugarcane stalks tied as a tripod framing the pot. Behind, a seated figure on a golden throne with a black turban-like headdress and red garland sits under decorative umbrellas, with saffron-robed attendants holding flags and a photographer in white nearby. A bald man in orange with blue-framed glasses and earrings watches at right. Pongal harvest festival, sugarcane and boiling pot offering.

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