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A photograph of an ashram dining hall where volunteers in white and cream clothing serve food from steel chafing dishes along a counter. A woman in a white dress with gold border and gloves ladles yellow-green vegetable dish, while a young girl in a yellow top with a long braid holds a plate at the right. Others in white kurtas and saris move through the room, with seated diners and white plastic chairs in the background, plain white walls and tubelights overhead. No identifiable a person candidate is visible.

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