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A photograph of an outdoor relief distribution. A bare-chested man with long swept-back dark hair, wearing an orange saffron dhoti and rudraksha malas, sits on a blue cloth and hands a small packet to a boy in a red-and-white checked shirt. A large metal basin of packets sits in front. Nearby, a man in white dhoti and shirt with a mala holds packets, a young man in white and orange stands behind, and a group of women and girls in pale and teal salwar and sarees watches. Flower petals are scattered on the ground.

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