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A photograph of a shaven-headed? no—a person with long dark hair swept back, wearing a saffron-orange robe with a red tilak mark, bowing head as an older woman in a mustard-yellow sari raises two garlands of yellow and red flowers with green leaves over him. A man in white shirt and glasses stands at left with hands pressed together, and a crowd of onlookers, including a man with a red bindi, stands behind in a busy outdoor street setting near a temple entrance. The person receiving the garland is a devotee in orange robes; the.