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A close photo of a meal served on a green banana leaf set on a white plate. On the leaf are white rice, a pale puri-style bread, a pink-rimmed round piece topped with yellow-spiced diced potato, and a pile of brown fried pieces with a dark curry. Behind the leaf sits a wooden tray or box decorated with red roses and small yellow-brown sweets, and at the upper right a dark brass lamp stand with a brass vessel. No people are visible.

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Close photograph of a meal served on a green banana leaf resting on a white plate. On the left are pieces of fried or sauteed vegetables and a dark sauce, with a pale roasted or fried item beside them. In the centre is a round puffed bread and a mound of yellow-flecked rice with diced vegetables. A larger flat fried bread, puri-like, overlaps the bottom left. Behind the leaf, a wooden tray or box holds red rose petals and yellow flowers, with a metal lamp stand at the right edge. No people are visible.2025-08-08A top-down photograph of a meal served on a banana leaf placed on a stainless steel plate, set on a teal cloth with small gold dot embroidery. The leaf holds white rice, a dark brown curry, fried potato or vegetable pieces, a pale yellow mashed dish with green chilies, two thin crisp papadums or wafers, and a round flatbread or pancake topped with yellow sauce. A stainless steel tumbler of water sits at the upper right, and a small pink petal lies at the lower right edge. No people are visible.2025-08-08November 20 20062006-11-20Photograph of a banana leaf served as a plate on a light tiled floor, holding prasadam offerings for a maheswarapuja naivedyam. On the leaf are vadas, papadums, a mound of rice with yellow curry and mixed sides, a cooked portion of rice, a pile of dried fruit or raisins, a small heap of brown pulses, and a banana piece. A steel tumbler sits at the upper right, and an orange cloth edge is visible at the bottom. A timestamp overlay reads 12-May-2025 06:26:24 with the caption kailasa thiruchenkod u maheswarapuja naivedyam. No people are visible and no a person depiction appears.2025-11-05A top-down photograph of a traditional South Indian vegetarian meal served on a green banana leaf placed on a red and gold patterned mat. White rice mounds the centre, surrounded by cut fruit including apple and orange slices, a small pile of cucumber slices, fried vadas, a lentil or vegetable curry in a steel bowl, greens, a yellow vegetable dish, papadums and a small sweet in a bowl. Silver plates, a flower-garnished plate with yellow marigolds and strawberries, and a small black oil lamp with a burning flame frame the meal. No people are visible.2021-05-01January 22 20142014-01-22November 14 20132013-11-14May 08 20172017-05-08Overhead photo of a traditional South Indian meal served on a large green banana leaf placed on a light tiled floor. Arranged on the leaf are white steamed rice, a golden puri, a donut-shaped vada, diced potato and vegetable stir-fry, a mound of pink shredded beetroot, crisp papadams, a small sweet ball, and a yellow dal-like dish, plus several small white cups holding sambar, rasam and curry.2017-05-08May 08 20172017-05-08A brass plate on a banana leaf holds a meal offering: a mound of white rice, a bowl of brown vegetable curry, a bowl of thin orange-brown sauce, a mound of reddish-brown crumbled preparation, and a small brass bowl with two white rice-cake rolls. The plate sits on a wooden surface scattered with white flowers tipped in red, in front of draped red and gold brocade fabric. No people are visible.2025-11-21A photograph of a meal served on a green banana leaf placed on a metal tray over an orange patterned cloth. The leaf holds steamed white rice, a yellow lentil or vegetable curry, a small fried puri bowl with potato curry, a mound of coloured vegetable salad, pickles, lemon-yellow tamarind or lemon rice, fried vadai, a sweet ball, murukku, a papad, fried banana slices and pomegranate arils with apple pieces. A timestamp and address overlay sits in the lower right. No people, deities or a person are visible.2025-01-11