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A dim indoor photo of an Anna Daan food offering. A standing person in an orange saffron robe bends forward, serving food from a steel vessel onto leaf plates laid on the floor. Several seated people, including children and adults in colourful saris and salwar, sit cross-legged along the floor eating. In the background on a raised altar, a seated figure in orange and gold ornamental clothing sits beside a framed portrait, and a floral-patterned curtain hangs at the left.

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A dimly lit indoor photograph of an anna daan food distribution in a plain room with a light-coloured wall and a patterned cloth hanging at left. A figure in an orange saffron robe stands at centre-left, bending over while serving. Beside them a person in dark clothing holds a steel pot. Several seated people, mostly in dark and muted clothes, sit on the floor with leaf or steel plates in front of them, receiving food. The image is grainy and low-light, and the seated diners are only partly visible.2024-08-09A photograph of a small indoor shrine room with white walls and a red floor covering. On the left a gold-coloured deity murti stands on an altar, and on the right a framed picture of a deity with a blue face sits in a decorated gold frame. In the centre a person in an orange-saffron top and dark pants bends forward over a pot or vessel on the floor. Near them a person in a blue garment kneels, and in the lower foreground people in checked cloth and red and teal saris sit on the floor among brass vessels and offerings, consistent with a food offering.2024-08-09A domestic prayer gathering in a tiled living room where a group of about two dozen people sit on a green mat and floor cushions facing a shrine. A woman in an orange saffron sari leads the worship at the right, holding a small brass lamp, with a brass puja plate of fruit and flowers before her. A man in white shirt and dhoti sits near the front, and women in purple, red and blue saris and children in mixed clothing sit in rows. A television screen showing a religious image with a garland hangs on the wall, and framed pictures and a glass cabinet with decorative items stand behind them.2007-10-01A photograph of devotees seated on the floor of a plain whitewashed room during a worship gathering. A bare-chested man with a white cloth around his waist and a white face mask sits at left near a doorway, holding a rudraksha-style mala. Women in saris, including a woman in red with palms pressed together in namaskar, a woman in a blue sari with hands folded, and a woman in a pink sari wearing a blue face mask, sit in rows. A small child is visible at lower left. No visible candidate for a person is present; the scene shows only devotees in a simple prayer room.Indoor temple-style hall where a priest in orange robes stands at left holding a lit flame on a long lamp-like torch, facing a small shrine. Two dark stone guardian figures flank a central altar with garlands, flowers and offerings. A framed portrait of a bejewelled figure with long hair and a garland sits on a stand at right, labelled as a printed picture. About a dozen seated devotees, mostly women in colourful saris and salwars with flowers in their braided hair, sit on the floor in rows at the front, hands joined in prayer. Brass vessels and a brass pitcher lie in the foreground. The scene appears to be an aarti or puja.2008 - Programs and Events at Kailaasa In Hyderabad +1 copiesNovember 15 20122012-11-15A photograph of a Varalakshmi Puja in a temple hall. At left, a priest in orange robes stands at a raised platform holding a lit oil lamp aloft toward a shrine. Two dark stone or metal dvarapala-style guardian figures flank a central shrine decorated with pink and white flowers and green leaves. Seated devotees fill the foreground, mostly women with long braided hair, wearing yellow, peach, teal, green and pink saris and salwars with flowers in their hair. A framed portrait on the right shows a seated figure with garlands on a red cushioned seat. Brass pooja vessels and offerings sit before the shrine. No specific a person appearance is identifiable here.2008-08-152008 - Programs and Events at Kailaasa In HyderabadAugust 15 20082008-08-15 +1 copiesAugust 18 20132013-08-18A seated group in a small room with white walls and shelves holding framed pictures, a television and books. A man on the right in an orange-saffron shawl over white clothing sits facing a circle of women in colourful saris and an elderly man in white. Brass vessels and a small brass lamp sit on a cloth in front. A man in white is partly visible at the lower edge, and the setting looks like a domestic devotional meeting.2007-10-01