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Indoor annadan style meal service in a dining hall with pink walls and framed portraits of saffron-robed figures along the top wall. In the foreground a woman in white with a purple top, orange lanyard and rudraksha mala serves from a steel pot using a ladle. A woman in a white blouse with blue embroidery, red shawl, red bindi and orange lanyard holds a steel plate and bowls, another woman in a red shawl stands beside her, and several volunteers in white clothes and white caps stand in the background. Small framed portraits on the wall show orange-robed figures, but they are not clearly identifiable.

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