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A long covered outdoor line of devotees, mostly women in white sarees with gold borders and men in white or light shirts, waits under a corrugated metal roof on a sandy ground. Many hold steel plates, moving forward toward a serving area on the left. Tall trees and a multi-storey building with red-trimmed windows stand behind, with a crowd of onlookers in the background.

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A crowd of women in white cotton saris with golden-orange borders queues beneath a red and green canopy strung on wooden poles, holding stainless steel plates and bowls. One woman at the left holds a steel plate of rice and yellow food, and another near the right wears a white shawl over her head and carries a steel vessel. Several people have long dark hair pulled back, one wears a green blouse with a white bag, and others carry handbags. Beige multi-storey buildings and a hazy sky appear behind them.2008-03-06Outdoor convention scene on a bare dirt ground under large shade trees, with a blue and white striped canopy tent at left and a long white tent beyond. Dozens of people in white clothing queue in lines and stand in groups; women wear white saris with gold borders and men wear white shirts and dark trousers. A green-covered table and a white car are visible at right. No clearly identifiable presentation of a person is visible, so no in-person candidate is described.2006-07-30October 07 20062006-10-07February 15 20092009-02-15A large crowd of devotees queues under a dark canopy at an outdoor food serving area, collecting meals from a long green-topped counter. Many women wear saris and salwar kameez in mixed colours, some with lanyards and ID badges; men in white shirts and dhotis stand among them. Several hold steel plates or plastic trays of food, and a stainless-steel vessel sits on the counter. Palm trees and a white building are visible beyond the tent. The scene looks like an annadan or community meal line; the crowd is too dense to count precisely.2009-11-28May 10 20172017-05-10Photo 82861022009-01-01 +2 copiesA long covered walkway with a corrugated translucent roof and blue steel posts serves as an annadan dining line. Crowds of devotees stand and sit along it, many in white ritual clothes, with a few in orange, purple and yellow saris. Volunteers in white shirts and gloves serve food from steel pots and trays onto plates held by people in the foreground, including a woman in a white sari with a red dot wearing gloves. Garlands hang along the far wall beside a framed portrait, and colourful festoon bunting decorates the trees and tents outside. Dense crowd, roughly a hundred or more people visible across the scene.2009-01-18August 02 20092009-08-02Outdoor photo of a long line of women in white and cream saris and white salwar-style clothes standing under a striped pink, green and maroon canopy tent on dry ground. Several women carry round metal plates or trays with food, one in the foreground in a white sari holds a plate of yellow rice-like food. Some have long braids with flowers, and a few wear orange-bordered saris. A dark blue cloth backdrop hangs at right, with trees, low concrete buildings and hills behind. The scene resembles a community food distribution line.2008-03-06July 27 20082008-07-27Outdoor breakfast area under open tents with yellow canvas and red, blue, yellow and green bunting strung along the edges. Long metal tables with benches run across the foreground, and many people in white clothes queue and mingle between them. In the foreground a woman in a white blouse with a bead necklace and a gold bangle holds a white cup and paper papers. Behind her, men in white shirts and white dhotis stand at a serving counter beside cardboard boxes, and a woman in a pink sari and a woman in green stand among the crowd. No identifiable a person figure is visible.2008-08-01