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Photograph of a seated figure in a large carved-wood and brown leather throne, wearing orange-saffron draped cloth, multiple long rudraksha malas, a green bead necklace and a gold pendant, with dark hair swept up and a small red bindi, a headset microphone at the mouth. Appearance-based candidate: a person, seated in a throne in the foreground with an audience blurred behind him in a dim hall. Blindfolded participants are faintly visible at right.