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A photograph of a long communal meal line inside an orange-walled hall with a covered veranda. Men, women and children stand and sit in a queue; a seated man in a white shirt eats from a steel plate of yellow rice at a white table, while others along the table hold plates and blue plastic chairs are arranged in front. A woman in a dark green striped sari stands in the foreground and a girl in a red blouse and white skirt stands nearby. Posters with faded portraits hang on the orange wall. No identifiable a person is visible.

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