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A photograph of a long queue of people in saffron and orange clothing standing along a brick-paved path beside a tall red boundary wall, with trees and a small green-roofed structure behind. Several devotees in orange robes and orange turbans hold steel vessels and plates, some receiving food from a person in a purple sari who stands bending over metal pots at the left. A man in a teal shirt and face mask stands near the front of the line. At the right foreground, a man in an orange turban and orange robe carries a blue bag. The scene suggests a communal food distribution. No a person candidate is visible.

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