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Photo 99181222006-01-01Outdoors under a thatched palm-leaf shelter, a row of women sit on a low concrete bench eating from pale leaf plates. The seated woman in front wears a white sari with rudraksha-style beads and a name badge, and the woman beside her wears a saffron-orange sari with a white blouse and a beaded necklace. On the right, a woman in a blue floral sari and another in white sit eating and holding plates, while standing figures in white clothes and a man in a striped shirt stand behind under the shelter. Green foliage, a blue metal table and marigold-like flowers lie in the foreground.2006-08-09October 29 20062006-10-29 +3 copiesMarch 08 20052005-03-08November 30 20052005-11-30 +1 copiesPhoto 82887832011-01-01 +1 copiesOutdoor festival scene at a roadside annadan (free food distribution) during a Karthikai Deepam celebration. Two women in colourful cotton saris, one in purple with red-and-blue paisley border and one in striped grey-white with red print, stand on a paved path holding steel plates of food and serving or eating from them. A man in a white shirt with a pink shawl and red-marked forehead stands between them. Behind them, seated devotees, a man in an orange dhoti, potted palm plants and white-and-colourful tent canopies line the street. Roughly a dozen or more people are visible.2012-11-27August 03 20052005-08-03Outdoor food distribution under a striped cloth canopy supported by bamboo poles. A young man in a checked short-sleeved shirt and a red-thread wristband serves rice from a large steel pot marked with green numerals. Beside him a man in a white shirt holds a ladle over a plate. A woman in a white and gold patterned sari receives a plate of food, and an older woman in an orange sari with a red bindi waits in line. Others stand behind them in a queue on dry, open ground.2006-01-01 +2 copiesPhoto 82841742011-01-01 +2 copiesA photograph of devotees seated on bare ground under a large open-sided tent with striped and colourful fabric canopies, bamboo poles, and yellow and blue draped cloth. In the foreground a man in white shirt and white dhoti stands facing the seated crowd. Seated devotees include an older man with white hair and moustache in a white shirt and dhoti, a man in a checked shirt and grey trousers, and a woman in a yellow-and-green sari beside a woman in a red floral sari with flowers in her hair. Others in white garments and saris sit or move in the background, with more tents and a palm tree visible behind.2007-07-29Photo 82842442006-01-01 +2 copies