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A night-time outdoor food distribution at a temple-like pavilion with a tin roof and strings of red fairy lights. Devotees line up and mingle, many holding paper or steel plates of food. At left, a deity murti or decorated figure is adorned with flower garlands, with gold trident-topped staffs and a brass kalasha-like vessel beside a red-draped table. A woman in a green and blue sari and a priest in white dhoti stand near the offering table. In the foreground a man in a checked shirt with a tilak on his forehead holds a plate, and a woman in a yellow top carries a backpack. A street lamp glows in the background. Roughly a dozen or more people are visible.

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