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Outdoor fire-walking ritual at dusk on a dirt path lined with palm trees. A boy in white dhoti and shirt walks barefoot across a shallow trench of glowing embers and ash. Around the pit, many men in white dhotis and shirts stand watching, some with saffron-coloured shawls draped over their shoulders; one bare-chested man wears a red-checked cloth. Several onlookers in white and women in white saris line a wooden fence at left. A man at right in a white shirt with a lanyard watches closely. No candidate for a person is clearly identifiable from appearance, so the figures are described by role only.

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