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A photograph taken inside a workshop-style room with a corrugated metal roof and a wire-mesh window. In the foreground, several polished bronze deity murtis and statues stand on pedestal bases, and a red painted wooden horse with a gold-trimmed decorated saddle stands on the left. Two men stand near a glass-walled office cubicle. The man in the middle wears a dark red dhoti and a reddish-brown upper cloth with a tilak and smiles toward the other. The man on the right wears a saffron-orange robe and shawl over his head and shoulders, carries a long staff, and has a full beard with a rudraksha mala visible. Whether the saffron-robed man is the a person is unclear from appearance alone, so the identity is not asserted.

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