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A photograph of an indoor ashram event. A central man wears an orange-red turban, an orange-red robe with gold trim, a long orange-red beaded mala, and white tilak marks on his forehead; he holds a small white paper and reads it. Beside him a bald man in an orange robe with gold edging holds a pink box with gold-covered objects. A woman with long blonde hair and a gold headband, wearing red, presses her palms together in anjali. Several women in white, yellow and orange saris stand at a metal railing, and more people in orange and white stand in the background beneath hanging orange and multicoloured tassel banners.

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