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A courtyard service line beside a plain white block wall and orange-brown wooden doors. A young man in a white turban, white kurta and dhoti, with an orange shawl over his shoulder and beaded necklaces, holds a plate of food and passes an item to an older woman in a white sari with orange border. Two women in white saris stand behind a steel table with steel containers and a bucket, serving from a spoon. Other devotees in white and orange clothing and a woman in green stand in line, one holding a plate wrapped in foil. The scene reads as a food distribution or annadan in progress.

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