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August 24 20142014-08-24 +1 copiesAugust 24 20142014-08-24A photograph of a food-serving line in a large hall with white walls, ceiling fans and decorated pillars wrapped in colourful patterned fabric. Women and girls in saris and salwar kameez queue and receive food on disposable leaf plates, while women in white head coverings and white clothing serve rice from steel pots on a long table. Others carry plates and pots of food across the room. Many attendees wear garlands and mangalsutra-style necklaces.2010-08-19A large hall filled with many people in white clothing serving a communal meal. Volunteers in white shirts and trousers, some wearing white caps, stand at long steel serving tables stacked with steel pots, bowls and flatbreads, and stacks of round flatbreads sit on the tables. Tall pillars decorated with red, blue, yellow and white geometric patterns and orange fringe hang from a white ceiling, and orange cloth draping and a golden decorative seat appear along the back wall. Several people in the foreground wear white and one wears a grey shirt, and many more stand throughout the room in the background. The scene reads as an annadan style community meal.2010-08-19August 13 20092009-08-13A large crowded dining hall at an ashram serves annadan meal. Many devotees, mostly women in white and cream saris and some in red or maroon, hold out round paper plates to be filled at a long glass serving counter. Men in white kurtas and pale shirts stand among them, some wearing white hairnets as food servers. Stacks of white disposable plates sit on the counter, and yellow and blue banners hang from the tented ceiling. Several people are in the frame, with more visible in the background.2014-08-24 +1 copiesA crowded indoor dining hall with pale blue walls and fluorescent tube lights and ceiling fans overhead. Many men in white shirts and dhotis, some wearing yellow shawls, stand and queue around steel serving containers at a long counter, holding plates and plastic food packets. In the foreground, a man in an orange shirt and wristwatch holds a plastic-wrapped plate, while a man in a plaid shirt stands at right. The scene suggests a communal meal distribution.2009-07-17 +1 copiesAugust 24 20142014-08-24 +1 copiesFebruary 14 20102010-02-14July 01 20152015-07-01 +1 copiesA photograph of a community meal line in a covered hall with a corrugated roof and white pillars. Volunteers in white shirts and cream sarees serve rice and curry from large steel pots onto plates held out by a line of devotees. A man in a white shirt and wristwatch ladles food on the right, a woman in a green-bordered white saree serves from a bowl, and a boy in white uniform helps at the counter. Attendees in white clothes, sarees and gold ornaments queue along the left.2009-07-11A photograph of a crowded indoor hall with white ceiling fans, painted decorated pillars and a stage with dark curtains at right. Women in saris line up and serve food from a steel counter; several servers wear white head caps and aprons, while others hold steel plates and banana-leaf style plates of rice and food. Many women wear cotton and silk saris in pink, yellow, blue, green and orange, some with gold necklaces. The scene reads as a communal meal service in a large hall, with a large steel pot and food being dished out to a queue of attendees.2010-08-19