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A photograph of a crowded open-air meal hall at the Kumbh Mela, under a long canopy striped in red, yellow, pink and teal. Rows of sadhus and sannyasis in saffron and orange robes and turbans sit on the ground before round metal plates and small cups, waiting to be served prasad. Several seated men wear orange headwear and some have long grey beards. Standing figures in orange and white robes walk the aisle. In the foreground a man in an orange-and-cream turban and red-and-white striped shirt looks toward the camera, with a grey-haired elderly woman at the right edge and a bearded man at the lower left. Green tarpaulin walls and bamboo poles frame the scene. No individual can be confirmed as a person from appearance alone.

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