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A photograph of a Shiva Deeksha initiation session in a hall with rows of salmon-coloured chairs. A long-haired man in a white dhoti and bare chest, with white ash marks on his shoulders and back, stands bending forward and tying a thread bracelet on the wrist of a shaved-headed initiate seated in a chair. The initiate, bare-chested and marked with white ash, wears a rudraksha mala and a hoop earring. Behind them a video camera on a tripod records, and a woman in a white sari with an orange border raises her arm while other participants sit in the background. A pink screen is visible at the upper left.

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