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January 31 20162016-01-31A photo of a buffet-style meal service under yellow and red striped canopies with yellow drapery. Volunteers in white head caps and aprons serve rice and curries from steel chafing trays along a long counter. In the foreground an elderly man with white hair and glasses, wearing a white shirt, holds a paper plate of food. Younger men in white shirts with name badges stand nearby, and more devotees line up behind the counter. The setting suggests a community food distribution (annadan) at a festival.2016-01-02January 02 20162016-01-02January 02 20162016-01-02A food serving line at an outdoor annadan under a red and yellow canopy with fringed trim. Volunteers in white shirts and white head coverings with hairnets serve rice and curry from steel trays into metal ladles and onto plates held by people in white shirts. A volunteer on the left wears a plastic glove and a tilak on his forehead. A man in a white shirt on the right carries a yellow cloth bag. Several people are visible, mostly partially cropped at the edges.2016-01-02A serving line inside a metal-roofed, open-sided shed with red-painted struts, where volunteers in white hairnets serve food from steel chafing trays. A bare-chested man with a rudraksha-style necklace and gold bangle wears a white dhoti with a gold border and spoons rice from a tray. Other servers in white dhotis and hairnets work along the counter, which holds rice, yellow dal-like curry and brown gravy. A woman with glasses at left and a man in a yellow shirt at lower right handle food, while a man in white dhoti stands at right. Scattered tarpaulins sit at the left edge.2019-01-20January 31 20162016-01-31September 28 20132013-09-28 +1 copiesJanuary 31 20162016-01-31A photograph of a large outdoor annadan meal service under a tent with yellow, blue and red draped fabric. A long queue of mostly white-clad devotees, many women in white saris and men in white shirts and dhotis, holds round leaf plates and paper cups while serving counters with steel trays of food line the centre. Volunteers in white, one in a white shirt with an ID badge, ladle food onto plates. A woman in an orange sari stands at the right edge. Several people wear lanyard badges.2016-01-31Outdoor 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.2007-12-30A photo of a community food distribution under a white tent with red, green, yellow and orange bunting. In the foreground a man in a white shirt with white tilak and a rudraksha mala wears clear gloves and serves food from a large steel pot. Beside him an older man in white clothes with white tilak and a mala serves from a steel vessel, and another man in white ladles food onto plates. A man in white with a maroon cloth at his waist holds a steel plate, and a man in an olive-green shirt holds a plate of food at right. Several more people in white and in saris stand in the background, some with green head covers, lining the serving counter.2012-11-27