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A buffet serving line of steel pots with a yellow rice dish on a patterned cloth, in a pink-walled hall with a golden cobra-hood canopy at left. A man in a white shirt and blue lanyard holds a serving spoon and wears plastic gloves, while an older woman in a green checked top and blue hairnet ladles food beside him. A young man in white clothing with a shawl and a man in a white shirt stand in the background, and a man in a white shirt near the door at left attends the line. The scene reflects an ashram annadan meal service.

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