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September 28 2012

2012-09-28 +1 copies

A large outdoor food distribution line under a corrugated metal shelter beside a yellow building. Many devotees in white and cream clothing queue along a long table covered with a red checked cloth, holding paper plates and receiving rice and food from servers. Women in saris, including one in a light blue sari with an ID badge and one in a mustard-orange sari, stand in the foreground. Male volunteers in white shirts and white dhotis serve from the table. Near the right edge, a volunteer in white with an orange stole walks past, and a framed portrait hangs on the yellow wall. Colourful tent canopies and trees are visible beyond.

September 15 2012

An outdoor meal service in a dusty courtyard beside a pale blue multi-storey building and a whitewashed wall with a red-and-yellow poster. Devotees in white clothes sit on red plastic chairs along a brick wall, holding steel plates of food. Volunteers in white saris and a man in a white shirt and dark trousers serve from a folding table with steel vessels. A small boy in a blue shirt stands in the centre. Trees shade the upper left.

A photograph of a long communal meal line inside an orange-walled hall with a covered veranda. Men, women and children stand and sit in a queue; a seated man in a white shirt eats from a steel plate of yellow rice at a white table, while others along the table hold plates and blue plastic chairs are arranged in front. A woman in a dark green striped sari stands in the foreground and a girl in a red blouse and white skirt stands nearby. Posters with faded portraits hang on the orange wall. No identifiable a person is visible.

2012-09-28 +1 copies

Outdoor courtyard meal service beside a pale blue-and-white building with a balcony and window grille. Several adults sit on red plastic chairs at tables, eating from steel plates and bowls. Women in saris and salwar stand at a row of tables with large steel pots, serving food. A man in a white shirt and light trousers stands at the serving table. A barefoot young boy in a checked shirt holds a plate and a small snack. A yellow wall poster with Tamil text and images hangs on the white wall, and garlands decorate a doorway. No ritual figure or identifiable a person depiction is visible. Dusty ground and tree shade surround the scene.

Devotees sit on a concrete floor under a covered orange-walled veranda, eating a meal from steel plates during an annadhan food distribution. In the foreground a woman in a pink sari with gold border and red bangles scoops rice from a steel bowl, with a blue-and-white bag beside her. Beside her a woman in an orange sari sits with two young children, one wearing a light jacket and one holding a red bag. Behind them rows of men and women sit or stand along the veranda, a woman in a pale green sari stands at right holding papers, and slippers are lined along the wall. The scene shows a communal meal line.

November 27 2012

2012-11-27 +2 copies

November 27 2012

September 03 2007

2007-09-03 +1 copies

A long shaded pavilion with a thatched roof holds a seated feast for many sadhus and devotees. Rows of people in orange and saffron robes sit cross-legged on the concrete floor behind green banana leaves set with small cups and steel bowls. Some men wear white dhotis, bare-chested with rudraksha malas and vibhuti. At the far left, a man in an orange turban and saffron robe stands near a banner with Tamil text. Background banners and a crowd of onlookers complete the scene.

A long covered hall under a tarp with a multicoloured striped canopy and a row of blue, red, green and white bunting, lit by tube lights at night. Rows of seated people eat from steel plates on both sides of a central aisle, with men in shirts and lungis on the left and women in sarees on the right. Several people in white dhotis and shirts walk and serve along the aisle toward a lit shrine area at the far end. This is an annadan meal service at night.