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Photograph of people greeting each other under a white tent at an evening event, with hanging lights and red-and-white fabric overhead. In the centre, a man in a maroon-red turban, dark-red shawl and white jasmine garland smiles broadly while clasping hands with a bearded man on the left wearing a saffron-orange kurta and rudraksha mala. Behind them, a young man in saffron-orange robes wears a gold-coloured necklace, and several saffron-clad monastics and a man in white stand nearby, with a monastic on the right in orange head covering smiling. Visible people are roughly eight to ten.

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