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Outdoor food distribution at a temple-like courtyard. A bare-chested man in orange ochre cloth stands centre, holding a steel plate of food and serving it from large steel pots with ladles. Around him, young men in white kurtas with orange shawls stand in a group, and a woman in white with a red flower in her hair leans in at the right. An older man in glasses and a white dhoti stands at the lower left, and a cameraman films the scene on the right. Steel pots of yellow rice are set on a white cloth in the foreground.

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