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Outdoor food distribution at a Karthikai Deepam event, with a long line of devotees queuing at covered tables. Volunteers in white clothes and white head coverings serve and hand out items from a striped blue-and-white tablecloth. Men in orange dhotis and a shirt, and an elderly man in a white shirt with a pink cloth over his shoulder, stand in line. A woman in an orange sari and a small child are among those waiting. Plastic chairs are set out on the left, and colourful canopy tents and green fencing stand behind the tables, with trees overhead and a small shrine-like structure visible behind the fence.

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