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A busy communal meal service in a whitewashed hall. Women in white aprons and clear plastic gloves serve food from large stainless steel pots on a counter, ladling rice, a milky dish and orange vegetable curry onto plates. Devotees queue along the counter holding steel plates of rice, puri and orange curry. A woman in a pink salwar kameez with a salmon dupatta and a man in white with an ID badge stand in line, and an elderly woman in glasses holds a plate. A woman in a red and pink kurta and another in a blue top look on. A woman in an orange sari sits at the far right edge. Small paper cups are stacked beside the pots and red ventilation blocks sit high on the wall.

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