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Outdoors on a sandy ground beside a thatched-roof shed, two men play hand drums (mridangam-style barrel drums) while others stand around. The drummer on the left wears a pale yellow shirt, an orange-and-yellow dhoti, and a tilak on his forehead, with a lanyard badge. The central drummer, with white hair, wears a white shirt and white dhoti and a purple-and-white beaded necklace, raising one finger as he plays. Behind them a man in white and another in a striped red-and-navy tracksuit stand barefoot, and a man in a blue shirt watches. A white plastic chair and a white-clothed man in a yellow dhoti stand at right. A signboard behind shows a portrait captioned Paramahamsa Nithyananda and text about daily anna dhaanam for around 250 people.

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