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A photograph at night of a bearded man with long dark hair and white vertical forehead markings, wearing a saffron-orange shawl over the shoulders and a garland of white, yellow, pink and purple flowers. He stands with palms pressed together in namaste, gazing upward. Behind him, devotees stand closely; a man in white clothes on the left and a woman in white with a red bindi and gold-coloured necklace press their palms together. A man holds a video camera near the crowd, and a blue sign with Tamil script and an arrow hangs on a metal pole. Appearance-based a person with saffron shawl, garland and namaste, present in person.

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