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Photograph of a crowded street entrance in Badrinath with a Punjab National Bank signboard overhead, showing a group of saffron-robed sannyasis moving through. In the centre, a figure in a bright orange robe and orange cap walks with a wooden staff, his orange shawl draped over one arm, assisted by a man in white kurta with an orange scarf. Several orange-clad followers and a camera operator carrying a dark shoulder bag surround him. A bystander in a striped shirt stands at left behind a metal barrier, and a white-clad man with an orange shawl stands at right. a person's presence is unconfirmed from appearance alone, so the central figure is described by role only.

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