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Outdoor ceremony under a tarpaulin canopy with bamboo poles and a blue truck behind. A man with long dark hair sits cross-legged on a raised platform, wearing an orange robe and a long white-and-orange garland, hands folded. Flower petals in yellow and pink line the platform edge, with a brass bowl at left. Around him, about a dozen people in white dhotis and saris with orange shawls, plus a woman in a green sari, stand attentively. A carved wooden pulpit with a microphone stands at right. Swamiji (probable): the seated figure wears saffron robes, a garland and long swept-back hair, a distinctive ceremonial appearance, and his role is the seated central figure receiving honour.

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