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Night outdoor satsang at Tiruvannamalai with a large seated crowd of women in cotton saris in green, purple, white and pink filling white-railed rows of plastic chairs in the foreground. Bright floodlights illuminate a banner-hung distant stage at right, its ornate red-and-gold canopy edged with strings of pennants. A large portrait panel sits on a stand in the background. Several women wear flower garlands and a gold-bordered sari. Palm trees and more crowd fill the dark background. No individual figure on the stage is identifiable.

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