Close photograph of a smiling man with eyes squeezed shut, wearing a thick garland of white, pink and yellow flowers over a rust-orange cloth. He has a white vertical tilak and a red mark on his forehead. Behind him, slightly out of focus, a bearded man with a red-marked forehead and bare shoulders stands among other blurred figures in a crowd. - Nithyanandapedia

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Close photograph of a smiling man with eyes squeezed shut, wearing a thick garland of white, pink and yellow flowers over a rust-orange cloth. He has a white vertical tilak and a red mark on his forehead. Behind him, slightly out of focus, a bearded man with a red-marked forehead and bare shoulders stands among other blurred figures in a crowd.

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