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Crowded hall during a food offering or annadan, with many people pressing toward a long table covered in green banana leaves. Several men wear white dhotis and rudraksha malas; one shaved-headed man in a white shirt holds a leaf. A grey-haired man with a white tilak mark stands at center. A woman in a green sari and a woman in white pass plates, while a figure in orange-saffron robes and a man holding a steel tray stand in the background. Large framed photographs of festival scenes hang on the wall above. The scene is busy with raised hands and bodies filling the foreground.

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