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A photograph of a food-serving scene in a plain concrete room. A man in orange robes with a pink and yellow flower garland and a gold-bead garland, hair tied back, scoops orange rice from a steel vessel. Beside him a bald man in a white dhoti and white shirt, wearing a red forehead mark and sacred thread, stands at a steel pot, and an older man in a white shirt smiles on the left while serving rice from a large steel bowl. A partially visible person stands at the right edge. A purple logo with a white bird is at the upper left, and a copyright notice is printed at the lower right.

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