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A photograph of men seated in a row on the floor of a covered, shaded hall, eating a meal served on green banana leaves. The foreground man wears a white shirt and white dhoti-style cloth with a white vibhuti or sandalwood mark on his forehead and a wristwatch. Beside him, other men in white clothes eat rice, vegetables and papad from the leaves, and a steel tumbler sits on the floor. Behind them, a boy in a white shirt and purple shorts stands near steel vessels and buckets, while others in white bend over the food. A broom leans against a white wall at right. A dated photo caption at the corner reads 16.10.2006 and a copyright line appears on the left.

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