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A photograph of devotees seated cross-legged on red mats in a marble hall, eating a meal served on white paper plates from low wooden tables with banana-leaf style plates. Foreground: a woman with short dark hair and glasses wearing white with a red shawl and a rudraksha mala; beside her a woman in white with a red shawl holding a plate of rice; at right a man with glasses and a moustache in white with a red shawl. Behind them other devotees in white and red shawls continue eating, and a man in saffron at far right sits among them. Several people stand in the background, including children in pastel clothes.

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