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A wedding ritual in an open hall with a white-walled interior and a banner above reading in part Nithyananda. A bride in a red and gold sari with a red head covering and a groom in cream kurta with a red-and-gold turban sit on a mat before a brick fire-altar with garlanded flowers, offerings and a small brass lamp. A woman in a white and orange sari and a man in orange shawl stand beside them, and a man in an orange kurta with folded hands stands nearby. Seated monks in orange robes at right face the couple while a microphone stands by the altar. Plates of sweets and fruit and marigold garlands fill the foreground, and a crowd of seated devotees fills the background.

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