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Crowded indoor exhibition hall under a grey fabric ceiling at a Hindu spiritual service fair. Blue-fronted booths labelled ALL WORLD GAYATRI PARIWAR and SRI RAMANASHRAM line the aisle, with blue and orange banners showing portraits and deity imagery. Many men in white shirts and dhotis, and a few in saffron and orange robes, stand and walk among booths, some with glasses and white hair. On the right, a booth panel shows a painted image of a bearded sage with two young boys and a banner reading GLORIOUS HINDU, decorated with a garland of pink and red flowers. A man in an orange robe and a turban stands in the middle of the crowd.

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