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Female inmates of Tihar Jail prepare dal in a cavernous dekchi / pateela / cooking dish, using bathing plastic mugs to 'ladle' out the lentil soup into smaller (OK, huge on their own!) containers. Each container goes off to a different prison dining room. Meanwhile, a woman stirs with a walking stick sized ladle, a large pateela of milk, boiling it for a good period of time! Milk perhaps for the whole prisoners... Ambulance and jail van at the exterior of the prison. Inmates preparing food in the large kitchen. Chapattis or rotis for lunch in Tihar Jail being prepared from atta with belans and with bare hands, by inmates. The largest compound of prisons in South Asia, Tihar Jail is also known as Tihar and has a brand of their own by the name of TJ's! It is located around 7 km away from Ch
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