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A photograph of a buffet serving line in an indoor hall. A man in a yellow polo shirt stands at left handing over a stack of white plates. Women in saffron-orange and red shawls stand in line; a woman in a white garment with orange shawl smiles and serves from a steel chafing dish. At right, a woman with wavy brown hair and sunglasses on her head, wearing a striped cream top and a red pendant, holds a ladle over a plate. Steel trays hold vegetable curry, yellow dal and white rice, with flatbread on plates. Above, a sign reads 'No smoking'. Several other people stand behind the line. Visible people number around ten to twenty.

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