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A photograph of an indoor ashram dining or annadan setting. In the foreground, a woman with dark hair pulled back, wearing a white embroidered kurta and a dark wooden mala necklace with a red bead, holds a steel tray with a small bowl and spoon while a hand from the left serves food into it. Behind her, a woman with a bindi and dark hair in a braid wears an orange-red sari. Several people in white clothes and a man in a white shirt with a number 60 appear in the background, along with a framed painting on the right wall.

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