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A photograph of an indoor initiation session in a dimly lit hall. A man seated on an ornate gold-trimmed brown throne wears a red-orange garland, an orange-gold cloth draped over his bare upper body, and an orange dhoti, with bare feet resting on an orange cube. Several seated participants in white dhotis with gold borders sit on the floor on white paper squares, many wearing black blindfolds. One woman in an orange sari sits among them. A woman in white sits behind a small wooden table holding a book. A cameraman with a tripod stands in the background near a lit altar with a small flame and a deity murti. a person is the seated man on the throne, identified by the throne, orange-gold ornate clothing and red-orange garland.

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