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Outdoor ritual scene at an ashram entrance under a corrugated metal roof strung with orange and multicoloured bunting. A bald man in a saffron-orange robe with a gold-coloured necklace and mala raises a lit oil lamp aloft with one arm. Around him, devotees in white with folded hands stand and watch; a woman in a pink sari and an older woman in a pale patterned sari also join in with folded hands. A man in white with a vertical white tilak on his forehead holds his hands together in prayer in the foreground. Behind the crowd a blue van and a videographer with a camera are visible, and a tall yellow ceremonial staff with a banner rises at the right edge. Marigold garlands hang at the right. a person candidate: the saffron-robed figure with the raised lamp shows a shaved head and orange robe but no hair or crown cues, so identity is uncertain.

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