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Photograph inside a large tented hall hung with colourful patterned fabric banners. Dozens of seated devotees fill the floor on orange and yellow mats; many wear white garments with saffron/orange shawls and yellow sashes, and some wear beaded necklaces. In the foreground, several women sit close together in rows. At the front left, an older woman in white with orange shawl sits near a seated figure in orange robes. A cameraman with a tripod-mounted camera stands at right near the stage edge, and a figure in white stands in the background. The setting suggests a satsang or discourse gathering.

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