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A photograph of a communal meal in a bright, tiled hall with large windows. Rows of people sit on mats on the floor, eating from green banana-leaf plates with steel tumblers beside them. Men in white dhotis and white shirts with saffron-trimmed shoulder cloths stand in a line, and a woman in an orange sari and saffron shawl serves rice from a large steel pot. Other women in white saris with red or orange borders serve food along the rows. At the far right, a figure in an orange robe stands near the wall, and more people in white stand at serving tables in the background. This appears to be an annadan style meal served to devotees.

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