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A photograph of a seated communal meal inside a red tent at the Shuddhadvaitam camp in Ujjain. Several saffron-robed sadhus sit in a row on the floor before brass thalis of rice and food, with a man in a brown turban and a bearded man with a red-brown wrap among them. A woman in a pink patterned outfit and a woman in a teal top lean in with a camera, while a bald man in orange in the right foreground watches. Marigold garlands hang on the red tent wall, and water bottles and steel tumblers sit on the cloth. Some sadhus are wearing orange hoods, and the scene suggests an annadan-style meal.

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