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A covered open-sided hall with an orange tin roof and long steel-topped serving tables with blue legs. Two men walk barefoot down the central aisle: on the left, a long-haired man in a loose saffron-orange robe and wrap; on the right, a bald man in a white kurta and white dhoti with an orange shawl over his shoulder, holding a cane. A large framed portrait of a bearded man in white with a white turban hangs on the back wall above a small altar with white cloth, flowers and a striped mat. A woman in a purple sari stands at the right table and another figure stands near the altar.

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