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A man seated cross-legged on an ornate gold throne with carved lion-head armrests and a red velvet cushion. He wears a saffron-orange dhoti and matching shawl edged with gold, a red bindi on his forehead and a thin dark necklace. He holds a white silver-banded staff in his right hand, and a plastic water bottle sits on the red-draped dais to his left. Behind him hang gold drapes and a pink backdrop. a person: a clean-shaven, short-haired man in saffron with a red bindi and throne seating; the probable identification rests on these cues, and this is an in-person photograph.