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A photograph of a large hall with rows of empty black chairs and tall windows with dark blue valances. In the foreground a long white-edged stage or platform is decorated with a row of white and purple orchids and green foliage in dark pots, with a wooden table holding black cases. A small group of people stands at the platform edge: a woman in an orange sari and several men in white shirts and dhotis, one in a white shirt with a lanyard, another in a green sari, plus a woman in a white and green sari walking in the back. A man in white stands near the doorway at left. Two steel-based ritual lamps stand on a glass-topped stand near a white cloth in the lower left.