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A dense crowd presses around a saffron-robed man at a darshan event under a decorated tent with paper star lanterns and orange-and-white hanging banners. The central man wears an orange garment, a white flower garland and a sandalwood-marked forehead, and he gestures with his hand toward devotees. Behind him a person in an orange robe holds a feathered peacock-fan and a framed portrait of a bearded man in an orange turban, with white flower garlands. Devotees in white clothes with gold bangles reach forward, some holding white papers, and a camera operator is visible above the crowd. Many people fill the frame, with more than twenty visible.

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