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Evening outdoor annadan-style meal service under a white tent with green matting. Long wooden tables are lined with seated devotees, several wearing saffron robes and marigold garlands. Standing volunteers in white kurtas and vibrant turbans, including a man in a pink kurta with a beaded necklace, serve food from steel plates and carry a tray with a lit oil lamp. A woman in a pink bandhani shawl and glasses helps serve, and a man with orange tilak on his forehead holds a steel plate. Crowded scene with many onlookers in white, pink and saffron clothing.

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