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A crowded indoor photograph of a devotional gathering in front of a green banner showing a row of framed portrait photographs of men and women. A woman in a long orange-red robe sits centrally on a white-covered seat, flanked by a man in orange near her and a seated man in orange with a flower garland at her side. Men and women in white shirts and white clothing, some wearing rudraksha-style beaded necklaces, stand and sit around them, and a uniformed police officer in khaki stands at left. In the foreground, a woman in white holds a brass lamp, and a brass oil lamp stand with lit lamps sits near a seated man in white. Women in saris and a man holding a small child in pink stand at right, with people with palms joined in greeting. Devotees in white and a seated man in white are nearby. The setting appears to be a hall with a tiled floor and a brass lamp and offering arrangement at right.

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