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A smiling man in a rust-orange dhoti-style garment with gold-striped borders stands at a glass podium with a headset microphone, wearing a brown rudraksha-style mala necklace and beaded bracelets. Behind him a golden deity murti of an elephant-headed figure is adorned with jewelled ornaments, a golden crown and red-and-white garlands, flanked by blue drapery and marigold, rose and purple flower decorations. In front of the podium stands a large gilded kalasha-style vessel with a cobra-hood design. a person: the speaker wears distinctive saffron-orange ceremonial clothing, a rudraksha mala and a kumkum bindi, matching a presentation cue for the a person candidate; appearance-based and uncertain, so marked as in person.