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A crowded outdoor tent at a Kumbha Mela camp, with a striped red-and-yellow canopy and green poles overhead. Many saffron-robed sadhus and sannyasis sit on the yellow floor cloth before low white tables set with steel plates, bowls, cups and water bottles, during a communal meal. A bald man in white ritual clothes bends over a table at right, serving or arranging food. An elderly bearded sadhu in orange with tilak markings sits in the foreground, and several standing men wear orange and ochre robes. A woman in a dark top stands at far right holding a phone. Thatched walls surround the tent.

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