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A photograph of a cake-cutting moment in an indoor hall with pink walls, draped white fabric and orange-and-patterned bunting hanging at the top corners. A long-haired man in an orange saffron garment with a rudraksha mala cuts a yellow decorated cake held in a cardboard box, while smiling people in white dhotis and shirts crowd around him. A woman in a white sari and a young child in white stand nearby, and a shaved-headed man with tilak is at the right edge. The cake has pink and purple flower decorations and written icing. The long-haired man is a probable Swamiji by appearance cues: long swept-back hair, saffron clothing and rudraksha beads.

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