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Photograph from behind of a large seated audience in a hall with arched balconies and yellow draped stage valance. Many attendees wear white cloth headbands and sit in dark blue upholstered chairs with numbered seat backs. Some wear white kurtas, others saffron or orange garments, and women wear sarees and salwar kameez in pink, blue and green. Two portraits hang on the side walls and a dais with floral garlands and a lit stage backdrop sits at the front. A cluster of people is seated on the floor near the front on the right. The crowd is in the hundreds.

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