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Evening food service under a decorated red-and-orange tent at a convention. A seated figure in orange-saffron cloth over a red top, with long swept-back dark hair, is serving food onto a leaf or plate held by a man in white. A man in white kneels at a metal pot on a table, and several people in white shirts and saris hold steel plates in a line behind. A man on the left in white holds a steel tray and wears a beaded mala. A man on the right in white and an orange shawl stands watching. Steel vessels and food bowls sit on tables, with string lights overhead.

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