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A photograph of a buffet serving line at an ashram meal. Volunteers in white tops and yellow lanyards serve food from large stainless steel pots: a pot of white milk or kheer with a ladle, a tray of orange-yellow sweet pieces, a pot of orange-red carrot dish, and bowls of curry. A woman on the left in a white top with a rudraksha mala and orange lanyard holds a steel tray of small bowls. A woman in a pale blue salwar kameez with a red-and-white mala stands behind the counter. An older man in a white shirt and a man in a cream kurta stand further back under a wooden-roofed walkway. Five people are visible in the foreground.

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