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A photograph from behind a large seated audience in a hall with cream walls, facing a figure standing on a raised wooden platform. The standing figure has tall dark hair piled high, wears a saffron-orange dhoti and a matching orange shawl draped over the shoulder, and a garland of flowers around the neck. A trident-topped staff stands beside the platform, and a microphone is placed nearby. Behind the platform hang a red and gold banner, framed religious paintings and a pennant reading the event title. Many devotees in white, orange and red clothing sit on chairs, some with palms joined in anjali. Whether the standing figure is a person cannot be confirmed from appearance, so he is described by role only as a speaker on the dais.