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Photograph of a long row of young men in saffron-orange robes seated cross-legged on a white tiled floor in a hall, eating a meal served on fresh green banana leaves. Foreground, a young man on the right holds his palms together in anjali with eyes closed and wears a rudraksha mala and a white horizontal forehead mark; beside him, a young man in orange with a mala sits with hands in a mudra. Other participants in orange robes sit with eyes closed, some with white forehead marks. Leaf plates hold rice, curries, fried bread and sweets, with small paper cups of water. A white canopy hangs at top left, and a door and wall are behind.

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