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Five people sit cross-legged on a red-tiled floor in a plain room, eating from banana leaf plates with steel tumblers beside them. Four are dressed in saffron-orange robes; the man second from left wears a white shirt and a rudraksha-style necklace. Several wear tilak marks on their foreheads. A man in a white checked shirt and dark trousers bends over at the right edge, serving or tending the meal. A rolled mat leans against the wall behind, beside a white wall and a yellow doorway.

September 10 2015

2015-09-10 +2 copies

A large hall filled with seated sadhus in orange and saffron robes, many wearing orange turbans, sitting in long rows on striped red, green and blue mats. Leaf plates holding food are set before them. In the foreground a young man in white shirt and white trousers, barefoot, bends forward carrying a steel bucket and serving the seated sadhus. Several white-clad attendants stand among the rows, and a golden shrine or deity murti is visible at the upper right, with a woman in a white sari nearby. Scattered orange and yellow lamps hang from the ceiling. The scene suggests a communal meal served to sadhus at a camp.

2015-09-11 +1 copies

Photograph of a long communal meal in a large tent with a red mat floor, where rows of seated sadhus in orange robes and orange or pink turbans eat from leaf plates. Servers in white vests and grey or dark lower garments bend along the rows, one ladling food from a steel bucket and another carrying a second steel pot, with small glasses and spoons set on the leaves. A man with grey hair and a rudraksha mala in the foreground serves food. Red and white hanging decorations line the tent above. The scene shows an annadan style bandara feeding of sadhus.

A photograph of devotees seated in a row on a red-tiled floor in a hall, eating a meal served on green banana leaves with small steel cups beside each leaf. Most participants wear orange or saffron robes; a woman in the foreground wears orange with a red border and a red bindi, and a woman in white with a light orange shawl sits in the middle. Some children in white clothes are also present. Walls are pale blue with yellow doors and a wooden rack behind. No identifiable a person is clearly visible in this frame; the scene shows a seated communal meal, annadan style.

February 02 2007

A hall with a polished tiled floor where people sit on orange and white mats in long rows, eating from green banana leaves set with rice, curries, papadam and small cups. A man in white dhoti and shirt, with a rudraksha-style mala, bends forward and serves food from a steel bucket with a ladle. Several seated devotees in white dhotis with maroon-bordered cloth eat, while others in cream and white saris and shawls walk along the rows carrying serving vessels. The setting is an organized meal service, with a wall sign and fluorescent lights visible overhead.

Five seated sannyasis in saffron-orange robes sit in a row on a white tiled floor, facing a line of banana-leaf plates set with food and small steel cups. Several wear rudraksha malas, and the foremost man has white ash markings on his face and arms. A standing man in white dhoti and shawl with red-bordered cloth walks past at right, holding a rudraksha mala, beside a framed gold-bordered picture. The scene suggests a meal offering or ritual seating in an ashram hall.

A long thatched-roof hall with a mud floor where dozens of sadhus in orange and saffron robes sit in rows on the ground, eating from green banana leaves set with rice and sweets. White-clad attendants in white shirts and dhotis walk the rows carrying steel buckets and serving food. A banner reads Nithyananda Namaha, and other signs display text beside the seated lines. Several seated men wear orange and saffron cloth with white beards, and one standing man in orange near the centre, with long hair and a beard, watches the line. The scene looks like a mass annadan meal.

September 15 2015

2015-09-15 +2 copies

A photograph of five saffron-robed sannyasis seated cross-legged on a white tiled floor, eating from banana leaves set before them with steel tumblers of water. Each wears orange cloth and rudraksha malas, and several have white sacred markings on their arms and foreheads. Behind them is a carved wooden stand, and a standing figure in white dhoti and shawl with a folded cloth stands at the right edge holding a garland. Prasad-style food including rice, vadas and sweets is served on leaves. The walls are white and a grey notice is on the wall beside a doorway. The visible identity cues on the seated men are not distinctive enough to attribute to any named person.

August 02 2016