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Outdoor evening discourse photographed from the stage. In the foreground, a figure seen from behind wears a golden-orange turban and orange shawl, with long dark hair falling down the back, speaking at a microphone on an orange-edged stage. Before them a very large seated audience fills a grassy open ground, mostly in white and pastel clothes, with many women in saris. Two cameramen with tripods film from the side of the stage, one in a white shirt and one in a checked shirt. Floodlights glow against a white boundary wall, trees and a tall tower under a dusk sky, with festoon lights strung across the ground. Swamiji (probable): the figure on stage has long swept-back hair, an orange-gold turban and orange shawl, consistent with the page's description of the speaker.

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