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Two saffron-robed men sit on an ornate golden throne flanked by golden lion sculptures, in front of a gold-patterned wall. The man on the left is elderly and bare-chested, with a white-ash forehead marking, a red bindi, a red headband and a long rudraksha mala with a large gold pendant. The man on the right, seated and smiling broadly, wears an orange-and-gold shawl, a red headband, a white-ash marking with a red dot, rudraksha armbands and a heavy ceremonial gold necklace. A bank of microphones and news-channel logos is in the foreground. A framed picture sits to the right.