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A photograph of people seated along a long covered veranda at an ashram meal, eating from banana leaves set on a metal table and on mats on the floor. A woman in the centre wears an orange shawl over white and sits at the table with a banana leaf of rice and sides. A man on the right with white hair and glasses wears a white dhoti and an orange vest with a rudraksha-style mala, and he sits in profile. Along the left, several brahmacharis in white with orange shawls sit on the floor before leaf plates. Bamboo blinds, a red-painted wall and orange flags line the veranda. Steel tumblers are placed beside the food.

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