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A photograph inside a large open hall with grey concrete walls, a blue steel roof frame and decorated pillars wrapped in coloured and orange cloth. Many people move through the space carrying stainless steel plates of food. In the foreground a woman in an orange sari with a large pink rose garland over her shoulders faces away, and a bald man in a dark wrap stands at left. Several saffron-clad sannyasis and older men in orange and yellow robes stand in the middle distance, and a family with children holds plates near centre-left. Long tables and seated people appear along the right side, and a painted backdrop hangs at the far end.

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