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Photograph of a seated man on a carved wooden throne-style chair in a hall, speaking into a microphone on a stand at right. He wears a saffron-orange robe, a long dark swept-back hairstyle with a red dot on the forehead, a thick rudraksha mala draped across the chest, a gold pendant, and beaded bracelets. One hand is raised in a thumbs-up gesture while the other rests on the armrest, one bare foot lifted on an orange towel. A plastic water bottle sits on a glass table beside him. Behind him, gilded and sequined deity murtis in ornate jewelled garments stand in the blurred background.