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A man with long dark hair and a neatly trimmed beard stands on a stage in a rust-red draped garment, bare-chested with a red sash across the shoulder and a bracelet on his wrist, looking upward. Pink-red velvet curtains frame the right side, stage truss rigging and spotlights hang overhead, and a row of golden oil lamps lines the stage edge behind him. Probable Swamiji: the long swept-back hair and saffron-orange ceremonial clothing are the qualifying cues for the figure at the centre of this event photograph. A white wall-mounted air conditioner sits at the left edge of the stage.