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A photo of a long row of seated sannyasis and devotees at a bhandara meal inside an orange-draped tent. In the foreground a young man with a marigold garland leans forward, and a man in a white turban and orange-red shawl with a marigold garland bends toward a metal plate. A woman in a rust-coloured shawl and pink-red turban, wearing gold bangles and a gold necklace, sits with hands pressed together in greeting. Other seated men in saffron and orange robes line the table, with steel plates, wooden benches and small bowls set out before them. A partially visible woman with a red bindi sits at the lower right. Orange fabric covers the tent walls. No speaker is clearly identifiable as a person.

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