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A long indoor hall with polished floors and colourful striped runners laid along the floor. Rows of seated devotees in white clothes eat from banana-leaf-style plates of rice and food, while servers in white kurtas and hairnets bend along the line ladling food from steel pots. A man in a checked white shirt and white hairnet stands at the left edge, and a man in a white shirt and dhoti stands at right. Several more people in white stand and move in the background. This appears to be an annadan-style communal meal service.

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