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Outdoor communal meal on green grass at the Arogya Yoga programme in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. Many devotees sit on the lawn in white clothes, many in cream or white saris and white shirts, eating from round paper plates of rice and curry. A woman in the foreground wears a white sari with yellow border, a dark braid, and eats with her hand from a plate. Nearby a girl with a long braid and glasses, in white with a yellow border, holds a plate beside a small boy in a white shirt with a rudraksha-style necklace. Plastic chairs and more seated people with plates fill the background, and a water bottle and blue bag sit on the grass. A middle-aged man in a white shirt at the right edge eats from a plate. No identifiable a person figure is visible.

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