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Outdoor scene at a food-serving counter beside a building with a blue-and-orange painted wall. A shaved-headed young man in white dhoti and shawl, wearing a rudraksha mala, stands at a steel pot and ladles food onto a plate from a small steel bowl. An older bald man in a white striped shirt and white dhoti with a pink shawl stands nearby, and a woman in a red blouse and patterned sari stands behind them. Other people sit at the counter in the background, and a white banner is partly visible. Visible people: about five.

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