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A photograph of a press meet at a Tamil-language event. A standing man in a saffron-orange robe and a gold-bead headband smiles, wearing long white and orange flower garlands and a heavy gold necklace, with a gold bangle on his upper arm. Beside him a shaved-headed priest in white garments and a gold necklace sits on an ornate gold throne with a large gold backrest, his hands on its arm and a white flower garland draped over him. A camera operator in the right foreground holds a video camera. Behind them hangs a dark banner with Tamil text and pink floral borders, flanked by two framed portraits, one of a bearded man with a white-banded forehead and one of a man in an orange turban with a red tilak. Overhead are fluorescent tube lights and ceiling fans. Appearance-based label: a person, the standing man in saffron robe, rudraksha-style gold necklace and flower garlands.

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