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Outdoor photo of a fire-walking event at an ashram on red-brown earth. A bald elderly man in an all-white dhoti and kurta walks barefoot along a narrow pit of glowing embers, flanked by a long double line of devotees in white clothes. Several women wear saris, including a pink-and-white sari and a yellow-and-orange sari, and a woman in a grey shawl stands at right. A cameraman with a video camera stands at the left edge. Behind them are a red-roofed building with a green tin roof, palm trees and a flagpole with an orange flag. Roughly thirty people are visible.

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