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Outdoor cremation-site ceremony on open grass before a range of green hills. A woman in a long orange sari with a rudraksha mala stands at center, holding a microphone and speaking. Behind her, a large stack of logs and wooden planks forms a funeral pyre on a bare red-earth circle with pink powder. About two dozen seated people, many in white clothes and some in orange robes, sit on the grass watching. Parked vehicles including a yellow-green bus and a white car stand in the background, with small saffron flags on poles. In the lower left, brass and clay plates of offerings, coconuts and grains are spread on the grass.

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