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A photograph of a communal food service in a plain, whitewashed hall with a metal grill and a stainless steel container on a table. In the foreground, a woman in an orange sari with a red border reaches to take food from a steel plate held by a woman in a yellow and purple sari. Behind them, a woman in a white sari with a red-beaded necklace stands near a young man in white. A man in white with a glasses and a white shirt stands at the steel containers, and other men in white dhotis and saffron-yellow cloths are visible at right. The scene shows volunteers serving food, with no clearly identifiable a person figure present.

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