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Kailasa avadi july 23 2021

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A photograph of an annadanam meal service in a plain hall with lavender-painted pillars and a green door. Children and young women sit on the tiled floor on banana leaves, and a bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a gold border serves rice from a steel bucket. Beside him, a woman in an orange and green silk sari bends over a steel bowl of cooked rice, and a girl in a black top spoons rice onto a leaf. Bananas and yellow rice sit on the leaves. Several seated women in pink and yellow saris line the far wall.2008 - Programs and Events at Kailaasa In Hyderabad +1 copiesAugust 18 20192019-08-18August 18 20192019-08-18Photo of a communal food distribution. A man in white shirt and trousers with a rudraksha mala and an ID badge serves yellow rice from a large steel pot. A woman in a green blouse and white sari with gold border ladles rice onto a leaf plate. Women and a child in saris and salwar kameez, some with jasmine in their hair, hold out disposable palm-leaf plates. A seated woman in a dark red top looks on. Plastic sheeting covers the floor. Nobody in the scene is identifiable as a person.2010-01-01Photograph inside a covered hall with a corrugated roof and red steel trusses, showing women at a Pongal celebration. In the foreground a young woman in a white sari with a brown blouse and a rudraksha mala holds a brass plate on which a banana leaf carries vadas, rice, sweet and savoury dishes. Beside her an older woman in a teal-blue sari with a gold necklace and bangles bends to adjust the leaf. Behind them rows of women in orange and red saris wear rudraksha malas and raise sticks, standing on striped mats near kolam designs drawn in white powder on the floor. No a person candidate is visible.2018-01-14Photo 99197742022-06-04 +1 copiesOutdoor photo of a ritual offering at a decorated stone platform draped with flower garlands and marigolds. A shirtless priest in a white dhoti, wearing a blue face mask, stands on the left and reaches over the offerings. Devotees in orange and saffron clothes gather around, including a woman in a red sari with gold necklaces and bangles who holds a brass plate of coconut halves, bananas and sweets. Brass bowls, a plate of sweets, bananas, coconut pieces and heaps of salt or grain are arranged on a tray. Greenery and an orange-robed figure stand in the background. No a person candidate is clearly visible, so the a person field is none.2021-01-16Indoor photo in a plain white-walled room at an ashram-style centre, with people gathered near a pillar and a doorway. A man in a white shirt and dark trousers stands at left holding a steel vessel. Several women in saris, including orange, blue and peach tones, some wearing face masks, stand close together, one handing an object to another. A boy in a yellow and red t-shirt stands at right foreground. An older woman in an orange-and-yellow sari stands at right, and a person in a blue top kneels near the wall beside brass vessels on the floor. No a person is visible in this frame.April 12 20242024-04-12A photograph of an annadaan meal line in a plain white hall with red-trimmed walls. In the foreground a woman with a long braid wears a yellow blouse and a blue-and-yellow floral sari, seen from behind. Beside her a woman in a grey-green sari holds a steel plate of food, and a line of children and young people in jackets and sweaters waits with plates. Two people in the background wear white head coverings. At right, a small shrine holds a seated deity murti decorated with a yellow garland, flanked by brass lamps, with a red-and-yellow canopy above and a framed picture on the wall beside it.2022-11-22A photograph of a large hall with rows of women seated on the floor in two long lines facing a central aisle, many with hands pressed together in namaskar. Most wear white saris with coloured borders, some in green, pink and blue. Each row before them has banana leaves holding flowers and brass lamps, consistent with a 108 Vilakku Puja of oil lamps. A few women in the background wear orange and green. The floor is polished and white pillars line the room. Numerous people are visible, though the count of those seated is large and partly obscured.2014-06-29 +1 copies