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A photograph of an indoor devotional gathering in a plain whitewashed hall with a striped multicoloured mat on the floor. About two dozen people sit cross-legged facing a small raised platform at the back, most dressed in white and some in yellow. On the platform, a white-draped seat holds a framed portrait of a figure in orange robes, and brass lamps with lit flames stand on either side. A woman in white kneels at the platform lighting a lamp, and a television on a cabinet at left shows a small coloured image. Several seated devotees hold small items and lamps. The room has an open yellow door at right and a flowering plant on the cabinet.

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