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A photograph of an indoor yoga convention hall with rows of white plastic chairs facing a stage backed by navy curtains. Audience members, mostly men in shirts and dhotis, sit on striped green and purple floor mats while a speaker presides at the front. Behind the stage hang a large portrait of a saffron-robed figure with a bald head and a yellow banner reading 'Dhyana Peedam' in Tamil. A smaller framed image beside a sign reading 'Ananda Yoga' shows a seated figure, and a pinned anatomical chart is visible on the right. Ceiling fans and fluorescent tubes light the white walls, and a kumkum-marked woman in white sits in the foreground.

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