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A photo inside a bare-walled room decorated with multicolored garland strings hanging from the ceiling. In the centre, a man in an orange-red robe and matching red turban wears white flower garlands and a rudraksha-style mala, smiling and gesturing toward a flower basket held by a young man in orange robes on the left. A woman in a white sari with gold border and a red-bordered blouse stands smiling at right beside several children in white and school-style clothes. A small pot with flowers sits on a white-draped table near the right wall, and a person in white stands in the doorway in the background. a person appearance cues are present on the man in the red robe and turban with garlands, but the identification is uncertain from appearance alone.

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