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Night scene of an outdoor annadan style meal at a Kumbha Mela gathering. Two elderly bearded men in yellow robes and yellow turbans squat on the ground eating from leaf bowls, with a steel pot and cloth bundles beside them. Standing around them, a woman in an orange top and blue floral saree holds a leaf plate, another woman in a red shawl eats, and several other people in plain clothes and turbans stand in the dim light of a distant lamp. No one is identified as a person.

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