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A photograph of a large open-air langar-style meal at a Kumbh Mela camp. Many seated sadhus and devotees in orange and saffron robes and orange turbans sit in long rows on a concrete path, eating from metal plates with small steel cups beside them. A white van is parked in the centre of the path. Behind them stands a decorated gateway hung with orange and yellow banners and framed portraits of a saint, with a banner reading an ashram name and a Hindi inscription. The people visible are numerous and mostly in the lower and middle distance.

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