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Indoor hall with cream walls, ceiling lights and framed posters of a saffron-clad figure with long hair on the walls. In the foreground a line of young men and boys in orange-saffron robes and orange turbans play frame drums, several with bare chests and rudraksha malas; one boy in front holds a drum with a stick. Other people in white dhotis stand with hands folded at right, and a woman in orange robes stands at left beside a row of gold stanchions with orange carpets. The scene looks like a drum procession or ritual musical welcome in an ashram-style hall.

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