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A photograph of devotees serving a communal meal in an ashram dining hall. Several men and women in white kurta-style clothes and white shirts line a long table draped in a floral cloth, ladling dal, curry and white sauce from steel pots into steel plates. One man in the foreground holds a steel thali with dal, rice, bread and sliced raw vegetables. Red curtains hang at the window behind. A man in white with glasses and a rudraksha mala stands at the right. No one is identifiable as a person in this scene.

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