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Photograph of a seated gathering on low wooden tables and a patterned rug in a plain pink-walled room. On the left a man with a tall orange turban and long dark hair, wearing an orange robe and a rope-like necklace, gestures while speaking. Beside him a man in an orange robe and orange head cloth sits cross-legged. Further right a shaved-headed man in orange robes with a red-and-white rudraksha-style mala sits near a brass plate of fruit. A young girl in a blue and yellow costume with a gold crown and jewelry sits beside a woman in a purple shawl, and a man in a blue kurta with an identity badge sits on the right. Water bottles, steel tumblers and bananas are on the tables. a person candidate: the turbaned figure on the left shows a turban, long hair and orange robe cues, but the appearance is only partly distinctive, so identity is uncertain.

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