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A 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.

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A long communal meal in a covered tent with red floor cloths laid end to end. Rows of people sit cross-legged on the red cloth, eating from white plates while a server in a teal and green striped sari bends forward to serve from a steel vessel. Men in white shirts sit at the right foreground, and a young person in a yellow cap sits among children in the left rows. Carved stone pillars frame the tent entrance, and more people stand and walk in the background. No one is clearly identifiable as a person in this scene.2016-04-24April 28 20162016-04-28A 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.2016-04-27April 24 20162016-04-24A 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 copiesPhotograph 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 30 20162016-04-30April 24 20162016-04-24A long seated meal line on a red carpet runs across the foreground, with rows of devotees sitting cross-legged before white paper plates heaped with yellow food. Men, women in colourful saris, and small children eat together. In the background, a golden canopied throne with a green-topped arch stands before a seated figure in red-and-saffron clothing draped with a garland, while a woman in a red and white sari walks the aisle between the rows. Several people in white kurta-style clothing and a man in a white cap and glasses are visible among the diners.2016-04-30A 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.2016-04-30A large tented pandal with white walls and red flags on a red carpet, where rows of seated devotees sit in lines on the floor facing each other with leaf plates in front of them, as if for a communal meal. A woman in a red salwar kameez walks down the central aisle carrying a plate or bowl, while other attendants move among the rows. Devotees wear white kurtas, checked shirts, saris and salwars; a child sits among them. Ceiling fans hang beneath white cloth canopies, and a carved wooden structure stands at the far end. The setting suggests annadan, a community meal served at a camp during a Kumbh Mela event in Ujjain. a person is not clearly visible in this scene.2016-04-24