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A nighttime outdoor photograph of people lighting handheld sparklers on a dusty ground in front of a green-painted building with steps and blue-green metal shutters. In the foreground a young boy in a pale blue and cream patterned shirt holds a sparkler, beside a woman in a yellow-orange kurta and orange dupatta with a dark beaded necklace and a gold pendant, who holds a lit sparkler. At right, a woman in a blue sari with gold trim lights a sparkler. Behind them, a man in a white polo shirt and others move about on the steps, and a motorcycle with a Tamil Nadu registration plate is parked at the right edge. Loose sparkler wrappers and debris lie on the ground.