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January 08 20122012-01-08Night-time annadanam food service at an outdoor ashram or temple compound lit by overhead street lamps. On the left, men in white shirts and white dhotis, one wearing glasses, arrange rows of stainless steel plates and bowls on a long metal serving counter. A woman in a white sari stands at the counter. Along the centre, people stand in a queue behind bamboo barricades, and a man in a blue shirt and dark trousers walks forward holding a steel plate. On the right, a man in a white shirt and yellow cloth and a woman in a green sari carry steel plates. A cream-coloured building with orange trim runs behind. Several dozen people are visible.2012-01-08Article - November 26 20062006-11-26A night-time communal meal line under a open-sided tent with striped red, yellow and white drapes and strings of lights overhead. A woman in a white sari with a long braid stands at the front ladling food from a large steel pot, and another woman in white ladles from a second pot beside her. Devotees queue with steel plates; a young man in a black shirt and rudraksha-style beaded necklace holds a plate of rice, and a man in a grey shirt stands at right. Several women wear saris in white, orange and green, and a row of steel vessels sits on a table at left.2006-12-23April 06 20122012-04-06Night photograph of a food distribution line under a canvas tent with bright fluorescent tube lights and red fringed draping. A man in a white shirt on the left serves food from a large steel container, wearing plastic gloves. Several people in saris and salwar stand in a queue holding plates and leaf bowls, some in yellow, orange and white clothing. Other people stand further back under the tent. No identifiable a person figure is visible.2006-11-26A 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.2016-01-31January 20 20192019-01-20April 17 20112011-04-17 +1 copiesA dim dining hall where many men in white shirts and white dhotis are seated at long tables eating from steel plates and small bowls set on the tables, with serving trays and steel containers at the centre. Others stand in a crowded queue or move between tables carrying white plates. Windows with grilles and tall pillars line the back of the room. Some attendees wear green and orange cloths, and a person in a blue shirt with a shoulder strap stands at the lower left. Many people are visible, mostly partially seen, at a large annadan or mealtime gathering during an event.2006-12-15February 28 20092009-02-28A large, bright hall with white walls, high barred windows and a row of ceiling fans, filled with a dense crowd of men and women queuing for a meal. Men in white shirts and white dhotis stand at the front of the line, one in an orange dhoti, another in a faded orange-brown shirt, and a woman in a dark red sari stands near the serving counter. Stainless steel tables and serving pans line the queue. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person, so no candidate is marked.2009-07-30