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A photograph inside a bright white room with a gold palanquin-style canopy at the left edge. A figure with long dreadlocked hair, bare-shouldered and wearing a saffron-orange wrap, kneels with head bowed while a man in white kurta and white trousers, with an orange lanyard and an ID badge, drapes a pink and yellow flower garland over the head. Behind them, an older man in an orange kurta and watch stands by, and other men in white and grey clothing are partly visible at the edges. Flower garlands of marigold and pink blossoms, orange and white clothing, and a gold canopy frame the scene. Printed copyright text overlays the lower right of the image.

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