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Photograph of a large hall where thirty-odd children sit cross-legged on blue and red mats facing a raised stage. On the stage, a figure in orange robes sits on an ornate golden throne-chair in front of a large black-and-white portrait of a saint hanging on draped cloth. A man in a white shirt stands at the stage edge gesturing, and a person in white sits to the right of the stage. Portraits on the side walls show a bearded figure in a white turban and a figure in a white turban with long hair. A small screen shows a face on the stage area. Overhead stage lights are visible. The orange-robed figure on the throne is not confidently identified; the setting suggests a children's residential programme with a discourse.

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