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A communal meal in a large hall with white walls and ceiling fans. In the foreground a bald man in orange-brown robes, a rudraksha mala and wooden beads, wearing glasses, eats from a banana leaf at a long white-clothed table. Beside him, other saffron-robed young men and a woman in a pink-bordered white sari eat from banana leaves set with rice, curries and bowls of yellow dal and mixed rice. An older man in white clothes and glasses smiles across the table. Devotees in saffron and white stand and sit along the room, and a woman in red and white sari eats in the right foreground. Silver serving tongs rest on the table. a person candidate not clearly identified by appearance.

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