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Outdoor annadan food distribution beside a railway track with grass and bamboo. In the foreground a large aluminium pot of yellow rice is served with a ladle by a young woman in a white top and orange dupatta and a young man in white with a rudraksha mala. A middle-aged man in a white shirt with a pen in his pocket stands at right. Women in cotton saris and bangles queue with a steel bowl. Visible crowd members, roughly six to twenty, stand behind. Thatched huts are at upper right.

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