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A long communal dining hall with a white-walled, arched corrugated ceiling and ceiling fans. A long table covered with a yellow floral cloth is set with steel plates, bowls and glasses of water, and people in white clothes sit along the left side eating. Several attendants in white with yellow shawls carry steel trays and serving bowls along the table, and a man in the right foreground in a white kurta with a yellow shawl and rudraksha mala holds a steel bowl. Red curtains hang at the windows. Visible people are about twenty.

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