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Photograph inside a white-canopied hall at an Ananda Utsava event, with a red banner reading Ananda Utsava behind the crowd. A bare-headed older man with a white beard, wearing a peach-orange robe and a red-and-gold brocade shawl, receives a tray of fruit and flowers from a younger person with long dark hair and rudraksha beads, dressed in saffron-orange robes. Other saffron-clad devotees stand nearby and a cameraman in white and yellow films the exchange. The older man wears no visible crown, turban or rudraksha; appearance is insufficient to identify him, so he is described by role only.

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