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Night photograph beside a dark car at an ashram entrance. A man with shoulder-length dark hair, rimless glasses, a red tilak and a rust-orange shawl wrapped over his shoulder wears a long gold-bead necklace and a red-orange dhoti-style robe. He stands with his hand resting near a kalasha-style brass vessel with a yellow-wrapped coconut and mango leaves, offered by a woman in a rust-orange sari with a gold border and a string of pale beads, who bows toward it on a tray with kumkum and rice. A cameraman in white shirt films at right; another man in white dhoti sits inside the car at left.

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