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A photograph taken on a wooden boat on a wide river at early morning, with hazy pale sky and riverside ghats with multi-storey buildings in the background. In the foreground, a bald man in an orange-and-white striped shirt and jeans sits and smiles at the camera. Beside him, a person with long, swept-back dark curly hair, wearing an orange robe and a red tilak on the forehead, sits cross-legged, laughing and raising one hand in a wave. Behind them, a man in a light blue hooded jacket and sunglasses sits at the stern. Other small boats are visible on the water in the distance.

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