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Photograph of an indoor convention scene with bright, washed-out lighting. In the foreground a figure with long dark swept-back hair and rudraksha malas around the neck presses a hand to the forehead of a man in a white shirt who wears a rudraksha mala and a name badge on a lanyard. The figure wears a white garment with a saffron-orange shawl draped over one shoulder. Behind them, other people in white clothes stand and bow their heads, and a man in a saffron shawl leans forward on the right. A blurred white-clad figure appears at the top left, and a blue stage backdrop is visible at the right edge.

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