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A photograph of volunteers serving food at a communal kitchen line. On the left, a woman in a lavender sari with a green bag and a white hairnet and plastic gloves uses tongs to serve from a steel tray of cooked food. To the right, a young woman in white clothes and a red shawl holds a paper plate while another volunteer in white and red ladles food onto plates. A woman in a white top and red shawl with a blue wristwatch stands at the right edge. Steel serving pans of curry and rice sit on a counter in front, and a dark background shows partial figures in saffron and white.

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