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A press meet at a long table draped in cream cloth with a red fringed border, set before carved wooden room dividers. Three monastic men in saffron-orange robes sit with palms pressed together in anjali, one with a shaved head and glasses, another with a shaved head, and a third with a short grey beard and a beaded mala. Beside them a woman in a white sari with a red flower in her hair also sits with hands folded. Microphones stand on the table, and paper garlands hang from the ceiling. Two of the monks show shaved heads; none of the four is confidently identifiable as a person from appearance, so the candidate is left uncertain.