Evening photograph under a tent with a red, green and orange striped canopy and blue pipe scaffolding. A man with long swept-back hair, a bare-chested orange-and-red ochre wrap and a rudraksha-style necklace smiles while serving food from a large steel vessel on a table. Beside him, a second man in an orange robe leans in, and to the right a young man in white holds out a plate to receive food. - Nithyanandapedia

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Evening photograph under a tent with a red, green and orange striped canopy and blue pipe scaffolding. A man with long swept-back hair, a bare-chested orange-and-red ochre wrap and a rudraksha-style necklace smiles while serving food from a large steel vessel on a table. Beside him, a second man in an orange robe leans in, and to the right a young man in white holds out a plate to receive food.

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