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April 27 20162016-04-27A photograph of a free meal service on a red floor covering under a tent. A woman in white with a saffron-red shawl tied at her waist bends forward, serving rice from a blue bucket with a ladle onto white paper plates. Seated devotees in rows, including a man in a red-and-blue checked shirt and a woman in a green-and-gold patterned salwar, receive their plates. Other seated people in white and green clothing line the background. Gold bangles and earrings are visible.2016-04-27April 27 20162016-04-27April 28 20162016-04-28October 07 20072007-10-07A photo of a free meal being served under a tent with painted red and gold cloth panels showing figures and peacocks. A woman in white clothes with an orange scarf and a rudraksha mala stands at a long table, holding a metal bucket and ladling rice onto banana leaf plates. Seated people, including children, wait at the table and along the benches, with palm trees and buildings in the background.2007-10-07August 26 20072007-08-26 +2 copiesLarge red-carpeted pavilion at a Bhandara feast for sadhus during the Ujjain Kumbh Mela camp. Volunteers in white dhotis and white caps and gloves carry steel buckets and serve food along rows of seated sadhus in saffron and orange robes. Foreground sadhus sit at white-covered tables with silver thalis of food; one has long dark matted hair and another wears an orange turban. Garlands of yellow marigolds hang from some servers. Hanging orange and green festoons line the tent ceiling and a large crowd fills the background.2016-05-05August 27 20072007-08-27 +2 copiesA man in white dhoti and shirt with an orange-red shawl over his shoulder and a white ID badge on an orange lanyard serves food from a blue bucket with a ladle. He has a tilak on his forehead and bends forward over the bucket. Seated devotees on a red carpet receive food, and a woman in a green and pink saree stands nearby holding a paper. Hanging orange and yellow decorations and a tent canopy are visible overhead.2016-04-30October 14 20072007-10-14A photograph of a free meal (annadan) served on a red carpeted floor inside a white tent. Seated in rows are uniformed police officers in khaki and tan shirts and trousers, plus civilians including women in saris and salwar kameez, children and older men, all eating from white paper plates. A bearded man in a white kurta and white head cover, with a saffron cloth over his shoulder and a blue bucket in hand, walks down the row serving food. In the background stands an ornate golden throne-like shrine with a deity murti under a green canopy, and more white-clad attendants move through the tent. Many people are visible, roughly thirty or more.2016-04-27