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A communal meal service in a hall with white walls, a wall clock and a mirror. A woman in a white top with a patterned print serves rice from a steel pot with a ladle on the left. Beside her, a woman in a white sari with a green border and gold bangles holds a steel plate of rice, curry and sweets. Other people in white and light clothing, some wearing lanyards, line up behind a row of steel pots of food along a table covered with a patterned cloth. A yellow and blue hanging decoration is visible at the top, and a sign on the wall reads Maintain silence.

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