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A large crowd of devotees with hands raised to their heads performs a mass meditation gesture in a white tented pavilion. At the centre, a smiling man in a dark red-orange robe and a tall black turban with a crescent ornament sits on an ornate gold-and-brown throne, forearms resting on the armrests. A golden trident stands to the left, and a camera on a tripod is in front of the throne. Many devotees wear white clothes and saffron-orange shawls, and several wear orange headbands. Empty white chairs line the back of the tent. The seated figure's appearance with long hair under a turban, ornate ceremonial clothing and a trident fits the page's a person context, so this is a probable identification. Crowd size is in the hundreds.

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