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A large dining hall at a convention in Avadi, Chennai, where women and some men sit along long steel serving counters eating from metal plates and bowls under ceiling fans and fluorescent lights. In the foreground, an older woman with grey hair wears a pale peach sari and another in a light blue sari sits at the counter. Further back, a few people in saffron and orange garments move through the hall, and a man in a white shirt stands at the right edge. The walls are tiled in pinkish-brown and the room is busy with attendees being served a meal.

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