A photograph of a hall with a striped runner and colourful patterned pillars. Several people walk toward the camera. In the centre, an elderly man in an orange kurta and dhoti with a brown shawl and a red-brown turban walks beside a man with long, swept-back dark hair wearing an orange wrap and bare feet. Behind them a man in white clothes carries a red and gold ceremonial plate with fringe. Other people in white and orange stand along the right wall near a white cloth-covered table.

$A photograph of a hall with a striped runner and colourful patterned pillars. Several people walk toward the camera. In the centre, an elderly man in an orange kurta and dhoti with a brown shawl and a red-brown turban walks beside a man with long, swept-back dark hair wearing an orange wrap and bare feet. Behind them a man in white clothes carries a red and gold ceremonial plate with fringe. Other people in white and orange stand along the right wall near a white cloth-covered table.$

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2007-12-30 $A photograph inside a large white tent-roofed hall with a polished concrete floor marked by yellow lines. Several people walk in procession: in the foreground a young man in an orange saffron robe walks barefoot, followed by a man in white clothes, then a figure in orange robes and another in white holding a large round fan-like umbrella with orange and red tassels. Tall decorated cloth pillars in red, blue and yellow stand overhead, and framed portraits of a woman in red are mounted on the wall behind. A large brass Nataraja-style dancing deity murti stands against a dark green backdrop, and a few other people in white are visible in the background.$ 2006-11-21

A photograph of a covered open-sided hall with an orange corrugated roof and red-framed windows. In the centre, a man with long, swept-back dark hair and an orange saffron robe walks barefoot across a striped green, pink and blue mat, smiling and looking down. He wears orange garments wrapped over his body. To his right, an older bespectacled man in white dhoti and kurta with an orange shawl and a rudraksha-style pendant holds a rolled item and walks alongside. Behind them a man in white and another in orange move through the room, and a pedestal fan, white plastic chairs and a table stand nearby. A large printed banner on the back wall shows a man in white turban-like headwear. A camera operator is visible at the left edge. The long hair, orange saffron robe and rudraksha cues are distinctive and align with the page's reference to Swamiji, so the central figure is a probable Swamiji.