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Indoor photo of a stage event with a dark red curtain backdrop and decorative painted panels. A man with long dark hair, a saffron shawl and a rudraksha mala stands centre-right, reaching toward a seated devotee; the appearance-based cues are long hair, saffron clothing and a mala, so this is a probable Swamiji (probable) in the centre, extending a hand to the crowd. Two younger men stand behind him in white kurtas with saffron shawls, one with a vertical forehead mark and a rudraksha mala, the other with horizontal forehead markings. A cameraman with a tripod stands at the right edge. In the foreground a crowd of devotees sits or stands, including women in white and orange saris and a woman in a saffron shawl writing at a table. Some people are only partly visible at the edges.

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