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A photograph of a hall with maroon drapes and white fringed valances along the ceiling. In the right foreground, a figure with long dark hair and a sleeveless saffron-orange garment sits with their back to the camera on a pale peetha-style seat. Several men stand in front of them: on the left, a man in a white shirt and an older man in white with glasses press their palms together in anjali mudra; in the centre a man in a white dhoti and orange shawl stands beside a man in a striped navy-and-white polo. A tray of bananas and other offerings sits in the lower left.

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