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Photograph of a covered outdoor hall where rows of devotees sit cross-legged on a concrete floor in white clothes with orange shawls, hands pressed together in prayer before banana-leaf plates of rice, brass pots and small offering bowls. Brass oil lamps and scattered pink and orange flowers lie on the floor in front. Rows of bamboo poles with orange cloth streamers stand between the participants, under a blue tarpaulin roof. A woman in orange sits at the back, and people are seated at a table on the left. Setting suggests an annadhan food-offering ceremony.

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