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Indoor festival dining hall with white draped walls, hanging red and gold lanterns, and colourful fringed parasols over round tables. Seated at a table draped in orange cloth, a man in white kurta eats from a steel thali, beside a bald man in black with rudraksha mala and a man in black with a mala eating from steel plates. A woman in a blue patterned top eats at the table's edge, and others in white and pastel saris sit and walk among the tables. Many guests are in white clothing and rudraksha malas. No identifiable a person figure is visible.

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