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A photograph of an outdoor communal meal service under a palm-shaded shelter with corrugated sheet walls. Men in white shirts wearing rubber gloves ladle rice and sauce from steel vessels onto steel plates along a long wooden serving table. A woman in a white sari with a red border stands at the table, and a man in white with a kumkum mark at the wrist serves beside her. Several people in white shirts and dhotis or white clothing line up holding plates, and older women in saris stand at the right. Banners and posters hang on the far wall behind the stalls, and a few gas cylinders sit at the left. The scene suggests an annadan food distribution at a festival site.

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Photo of a communal meal service under a thatched shed open at the sides, with palm trees behind. Volunteers in white dhotis and white shirts stand behind a long steel serving counter, ladling curry from large steel vessels into bowls and placing flatbreads on plates. A woman in a yellow-orange saree and bangles holds a plate and receives food, while a man in a khaki shirt in the foreground reaches for a plate. Large aluminium cooking pots and gas cylinders sit on the left. Several other people in white stand and wait in line. The scene depicts annadan, a food distribution, rather than a ritual.2010-02-18A photograph of an outdoor food-serving line under a thatched and corrugated-roof shelter beside palm trees. Several men in white shirts and white dhotis serve food from steel vessels onto leaf plates, with a row of helpers at a long serving counter. In the foreground, men in khaki-olive shirts receive plates of rice. Stacked orange gas cylinders and steel pots sit at the left. A small shrine-like table with a framed picture is visible in the background. Several men wear white shirts with small identification badges.2010-02-18December 30 20072007-12-30November 27 20122012-11-27A food service line under a roadside shelter with corrugated sheet walls and palm trees behind. Several men in white shirts and white dhotis serve food from steel pots onto plates held by people queuing at a long table. A man in the centre wears a dark rudraksha mala and white clothes and ladles curry. A woman in a yellow-and-white sari and another in a pink sari stand among the servers, with a woman in pink seated on a blue plastic chair at left. Framed garlanded pictures are visible at top right and a gas cylinder sits at left.2010-02-18October 14 20072007-10-14November 27 20122012-11-27November 27 20122012-11-27December 30 20072007-12-30February 14 2009 -Kalpataru Convention at Chennai Tamilnadu2009-02-14November 27 20122012-11-27November 27 20122012-11-27