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Night photograph of a long queue of devotees standing single file along a pale grey concrete wall at an outdoor ground. Most wear white dhotis, white shirts and white kurtas; one man in the line wears an orange-striped lungi and another wears a plaid shirt. Several men hold round stainless-steel plates or bowls. A woman in a white sari stands at the left edge, and a woman in a white kurta stands at the right edge, with a dark vehicle partly visible at the far left. No readable signage establishes the event, and no figure is clearly identifiable as a person.

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