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A langar-style food distribution in an open tent at an outdoor camp. A young man in a white kurta and white dhoti with an orange waist cloth stands at the center, serving food from a large steel bucket with a ladle. Seated along two long blue-covered tables, women in red and white saris and children eat from metal plates containing flatbread and rice with bananas. A striped drape of red, green, yellow and white hangs behind them, and a large framed portrait on the right shows a smiling man in an orange turban and orange garments, the portrait labelled with Paramahamsa text. The ground is bare earth.

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