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Outdoor photo under a corrugated roof supported by bamboo poles and decorated with palm fronds and purple-and-white banners. A man in white dhoti and shirt raises an arm near the left, and a bare-headed man in saffron-orange robes stands in the centre with a woman in white and orange beside him. A uniformed police officer in khaki stands nearby, while other devotees in white dhotis and shirts stand and walk across the sandy ground. A saffron-robed figure stands on the right in the background. Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam-style banners and a Sapta Yaagam setting suggest a ritual gathering in Salem, though no explicit event text is legible.

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