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Outdoor photograph of a rural gathering under a thatched canopy with a saffron flag on a bamboo pole and palm trees behind. A man with long dark hair and a red mark on his forehead sits raised on a platform, wearing an orange-saffron garment and a heavy red flower garland, smiling and raising one hand in greeting. Devotees in front offer flower petals: a young woman in a striped blue-orange shawl, women in white saris, and a boy in a white shirt wearing a pink volunteer badge. A man in a white shirt wears a long white-and-red flower garland. Another man in white with a rudraksha mala sits at right near the platform, and white-clad people stand behind. Scattered white and pink petals lie on the ground.

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