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A photograph of a community food-preparation scene under a canopy. In the foreground, a man in an orange robe with rudraksha malas and a blue hair net stirs a large steaming pot with a long ladle. Beside him, another man in an orange robe and rudraksha mala holds a ladle over the pot. A man in a white t-shirt with a badge and a man in a pink shirt stand nearby, and several workers in white caps and hairnets tend other pots and stoves in the background. No clear appearance-based identification of a person is made here.

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