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Outdoor annadaan meal under a draped tent with red, green, yellow and blue striped fabric. A shaved-headed man in white robes with an orange saffron shawl and wristwatch pours food or drink from a large steel pot into a plate at a blue-topped table. Seated guests at red plastic chairs include a young girl in school uniform with a green dupatta, a girl in pink, and elderly men eating from banana-leaf-style plates. A second helper in white stands at left beside a turquoise water drum. Several diners and a child fill the foreground and background.

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