November 06 2011 - Nithyanandapedia

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November 06 2011

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Night outdoor scene on a paved path where volunteers serve food from a long table draped in orange and red cloth. Metal pots and steel pans of curry sit on banana leaves, and a man in white dhoti and shirt with a shaved head and bare upper body ladles food. Nearby, a man in white with a hairnet serves from a pot, and a man in white with a camera around his neck watches. Men in white clothes and hairnets work the line; a woman in a red sari stands in the background. Behind them are a water jug and a red pillar. A man at left wears a garland of white and red flowers and a tilak. A man at left wears a white dhoti, glasses and a red lanyard and places food on leaves.

A communal annadan serving line in a bright indoor hall. A bald man in orange saffron robes with long rudraksha malas stands at left holding a steel plate of food. Beside him, two young men in white dhotis with saffron borders and rudraksha malas hold steel plates; the one in the centre has a sandalwood or kumkum mark on his forehead. Women in white saris and hairnets serve from copper and steel vessels on a long table, with brass arched railings and pink flowers in the foreground.

February 14 2009 -Kalpataru Convention at Chennai Tamilnadu

Night photograph of a crowded outdoor food distribution line at a temple compound lit by strings of multicolour fairy lights. Volunteers in white shirts and white hairnets serve flatbread and curry from steel trays. Devotees in saffron-orange clothing and rudraksha malas queue, including a woman in orange holding a plate with flatbread and curry with her hands joined, and a young boy in orange wearing glasses. A volunteer in white dhoti with a gold border stands at the right. No identifiable a person figure is visible.

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June 01 2009

A serving line under a covered open-sided shelter with brown matting on the roof. Men in white clothes with orange shawls stand behind steel pots and trays of food, using ladles to serve rice and curry. On the left, a woman with a long thick braid and white garment faces the servers and holds a plate. On the far right, a man in white with orange shawl, rudraksha mala and wire-rimmed glasses holds a ladle over a steel pot of white rice. Several people stand in the background, and a bald man in white with a golden-bordered shawl serves food in the centre. Steel vessels and bowls of yellow curry fill the foreground.

A photograph of a communal meal service under a thatched shelter open to trees outside. Several young men in white dhotis and orange shawls stand in a line serving food from large steel pots and bowls on a steel counter. Rice and a yellow curry are ladled onto plates. A woman in white with a long braid in the foreground holds a plate of rice, and a bald man in white with a gold-bordered shawl is at the right serving from a pot. Other people in white stand behind the line, and a few figures are partly visible in the background.

February 28 2009

August 29 2009

A photograph of a communal meal service under a covered open-sided shelter with a bamboo-mat ceiling. A row of people in white clothing serve food from steel vessels on a counter, ladling dal or curry into a stainless-steel bowl. In the foreground on the left, a woman in a white sari with orange border serves from a tray. On the right, a smiling man wearing rimless glasses, an orange shawl and a rudraksha mala stands beside a man in white with a yellow-bordered shawl. Other attendees in white and orange stoles line the serving counter.

October 23 2012

Outdoor food service at a festival meal line under an orange and yellow marigold-decorated canopy with red and pink drapes. Men in white shirts and white dhotis, some wearing rudraksha malas and lanyards, stand behind steel pots of rice and yellow food, serving with ladles onto banana-leaf or leaf plates. Women in cream and white saris with gold borders are receiving food and seated at long blue-topped wooden benches. A man in plain white clothes holds a leaf plate at the right edge. Several people are visible, and the scene shows annadan style communal serving.