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A stage at an outdoor festival event is lined with ornate gold-and-red thrones, each with a microphone and water bottles on a white-draped table decorated with marigold and orange garlands. Several seated figures wear orange robes and saffron headwear, while others in white shirts and a white cap sit beside them. A central orange-robed figure with a shaved head speaks into a microphone. Behind them a large yellow banner reads Kannada text and the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetha logo, alongside a painted deity image of two figures in red and gold. Several other seated figures have a dark-jacketed man at the far right. a person appears among the seated dignitaries, marked by the saffron-robed figure with a turban and rudraksha malas on the left-centre; the identification rests on the saffron clothing and turban, not on the page.