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Night photograph of a Karthigai Deepam lamp ritual with many brass oil lamps lit on a red circular platform surrounded by devotees. A man in white dhoti and shirt with a white head cloth lights lamps, and a woman in a cream and black sari with a lanyard lights another lamp. Other devotees in white and cream clothing stand around, some with lanyards, and a stick-like object with a yellow and green garland is visible at the upper left. Several lamps glow on the ground in the background.

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