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A 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.

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April 27 20162016-04-27April 27 20162016-04-27 +1 copiesApril 28 20162016-04-28April 30 20162016-04-30A long communal meal line inside a tent with a red floor covering. Several women in blue and white tops with red and orange sashes and orange lanyards serve food onto white paper plates along the row. Seated devotees on the right, including a man in an orange shirt and men in white and checked shirts, receive the food. A few people stand in the background near ornate carved wooden pillars, and a white boundary line runs along the floor.2016-04-24Photograph of a long line of seated devotees on a red floor covering during a communal meal service. Rows of people sit cross-legged facing each other along both sides, holding or waiting before white paper plates of yellow rice-like food. A man in a white dhoti and an orange-red sash bends forward, serving food from a bucket, while another person in white and orange stands behind him. Women in saris and a boy in a pink top sit on the right, and a man in a purple shirt and jeans sits in the foreground. Metal food containers and a shuttered shop front are visible in the background. The people visible number roughly two dozen, and no a person candidate is clearly present.2016-04-30April 27 20162016-04-27 +1 copiesA long row of seated people eats a communal meal on a red cloth on the ground, with metal plates holding yellow food spread along the line. A server in a teal and brown patterned kurta and pants stands at the right, holding a green metal pitcher to serve. Most seated men wear white kurtas, and one wears a yellow head covering. Several diners reach toward their plates. This appears to be an annadan style communal meal. Visible people number roughly six to twenty.2016-04-24April 28 20162016-04-28 +1 copiesA long row of devotees, mostly women and children, sits cross-legged on a red carpet eating from white paper plates containing yellow food. In the foreground a smiling woman in a teal and green patterned sari with a red bindi looks toward the camera while a young girl in a polka-dot dress and a bald toddler sit beside her. Behind them, a few men in white dhotis and orange-red sashes stand near golden decorative structures. The people seated appear to be sharing a communal meal. No a person candidate is clearly visible in the scene.2016-04-30Indoor ritual gathering with people seated on mats on a concrete floor in a hall with white chairs and a table at the back. In the foreground, a woman with long dark hair wears an orange sari, a red blouse and a gold necklace, bending to ladle contents from a steel bucket. Around her, seated devotees wear white clothes, and a woman in a purple sari sits in the lower left with a child. A man in white and an orange-clad figure stand or bend in the background near a cloth-draped table. Steel tumblers and plates lie on green cloth at the bottom right.2007-12-26April 30 20162016-04-30