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A buffet service line in an ashram dining hall with pale peach walls. A man with short grey hair in a white kurta holds a plate while a man in a white shirt with a light blue and white floral-print dupatta and wooden mala beads ladles food from a steel dish. Behind them a woman in a red patterned top and another person in white stand at the counter, and a man in a white cap-and-white shirt with a small badge serves rice. Stainless steel trays hold rice, yellow dal and vegetables. A large framed photograph of a banyan tree decorates the right wall, and an orange cloth and a small plant sit at the left edge. No one is identified as a person in this scene.

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