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Evening gathering in a tented hall with blue-and-white draped fabric and a crowd standing and seated behind. A cameraman in an orange top films from a raised position under a stage light. In the foreground a bearded man with long dark hair in a white kurta holds a blue microphone and speaks, seated on a red cloth. Seated around him are devotees in white clothes with orange lanyards and ID badges, including a woman in white with a white shawl and a man in white with spectacles. Brass plates of flowers and offerings sit before them. A man in a red-and-white outfit and several children are visible in the crowd. a person is the bearded man speaking into the microphone, identifiable by his long hair and beard and his central place on the seated floor, with the crowd listening.

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