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Indoor photo in a plain cream-walled room. On the right, a long-haired person in a saffron-orange wrap with layered beaded malas and gold pendant necklaces, a gold waist belt, and white sacred ash with a red dot on the forehead, palms pressed together and smiling broadly; a white decorative armband is visible. Beside them, a man in a white shirt and white dhoti-style trousers with white tilak on his forehead stands at a red-velvet-lined box on a golden-framed chair, bending forward and handling something in his hands. A white tower cooler stands between them. The person in saffron appears to be a probable Swamiji, identified by distinctive visible cues: long swept-back hair, saffron wrap, rudraksha-style malas and ceremonial gold necklaces.