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A photograph of a row of seated sadhus in saffron and orange robes inside a tent decorated with red and orange draped fabric and hanging garlands. In the foreground, a bearded man with long hair, wearing an orange kurta and glasses with a small tilak on his forehead, sits cross-legged on a white sheet before a low wooden table holding a leaf plate with flatbread, sweets and a steel tumbler. Marigold flowers lie on the floor and a decorated marble tray sits at the bottom edge. Several other men in orange sit at similar meal tables along the line, many wearing orange turbans. a person cues are limited here, so the seated foreground man is described by role only.

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