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Night-time communal meal service outdoors on a paved courtyard. A man in a white cap and gloves, wearing a white shirt and an orange-red shawl, serves food from steel chafing trays of rice and side dishes onto plates held by people in line. A woman in a grey sari with a maroon blouse and red bindi holds a plate; a younger woman in white with a blue lanyard and others queue behind a long buffet table. Plates of food, ladles and steel trays are visible; a tall orange-brown pillar and red fabric hang in the background. Several people stand in line, roughly five visible.

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