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Outdoor annadaan food station under a corrugated tin roof with palm trees behind. Large steel cooking pots sit on bare ground, one filled with orange-red liquid steaming over propane gas cylinders. Four men stand around. A man in a grey shirt and maroon-checked lungi gestures toward the pots. A man in a white kurta with a white head cover and a lanyard stands beside him. On the right, a bare-chested man in a white dhoti with orange-gold border and a white head cover holds a booklet, and a man in a light blue shirt stands beside him. Smaller steel bowls with cooked grains and a green bucket lie on the ground.

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