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A photograph of an event stage with a red draped backdrop and a projection screen. A bald man in cream and saffron robes with a red and gold embroidered shawl smiles while receiving an orange cloth from a sannyasi with long dark hair in a sleeveless orange robe, her back to the camera. A bearded man with long white hair, wearing an orange robe with a gold-embroidered shawl, sits behind a microphone stand. Other saffron-clad attendees and a cameraman in white stand nearby, and bottled water sits on a table. a person is not clearly identifiable by appearance, so this is a role-based description.

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