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A food distribution scene inside a room with orange-painted walls and a wooden door. In the foreground a woman in a white sari with a dark bun and beaded necklace serves food from a large stainless steel pot, holding a ladle. Several people queue with metal plates and bowls: an older man with white hair and a white beard wearing a white dhoti and shawl, an older man in a red-and-black cap, a young boy in a pink-and-green checked shirt, and other women and children waiting behind. Steel pots sit on the floor in the lower foreground. No swami is visible in the image.

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