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A night-time communal meal line at an outdoor ashram setting, with string lights strung overhead. Devotees in white head coverings and saffron or orange robes stand before steel trays of food, serving rice dishes, curry and flatbread onto plates. A young boy in a yellow shirt holds a plate of flatbread and curry, while a person in a white dhoti with a gold border and a rudraksha mala stands in the right foreground, back to the camera. Steel serving spoons rest in the trays. No clearly identifiable central figure is visible in this frame.

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