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A smiling man with long dark hair sits cross-legged on a red cloth-covered platform, wearing an orange saffron robe and a heavy multi-strand gold ceremonial necklace. A red bindi marks his forehead. He raises one hand while speaking into a microphone on a boom stand, and a wooden stand or book rest lies in front of him. Behind him hangs a pale turquoise drape decorated with vertical strands of beads in orange, white and brown. Two red and black zebra-print chairs flank him, and a red tambourine rests at left. Swamiji (probable): long swept-back hair, saffron robe and gold necklace, consistent with the page subject.