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A 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.

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A large outdoor food distribution line under a corrugated metal shelter beside a yellow building. Many devotees in white and cream clothing queue along a long table covered with a red checked cloth, holding paper plates and receiving rice and food from servers. Women in saris, including one in a light blue sari with an ID badge and one in a mustard-orange sari, stand in the foreground. Male volunteers in white shirts and white dhotis serve from the table. Near the right edge, a volunteer in white with an orange stole walks past, and a framed portrait hangs on the yellow wall. Colourful tent canopies and trees are visible beyond.2009-01-18A long covered open-air canopy with a corrugated roof on blue steel posts serves a crowded communal meal. Many people in white shirts and white saris line both sides of a long table, some holding plates and steel tumblers while others queue and serve food from large pots. Shade trees and red, orange and green festoon decorations stretch behind the canopy. On the right yellow wall hangs a framed portrait and a small white-draped altar table. A banner reading Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam Temples is partly visible at the back. The scene looks like an annadan style community lunch.2009-01-18A 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.2009-11-28August 02 20092009-08-02Annadhan in 20082009-01-01 +2 copiesA crowd of devotees queues under a red-roofed open-sided shelter for free meals at an ashram annadan. Many people wear white dhotis and white shirts, and several women wear white saris, with white head coverings on some. A stainless steel serving counter holds trays of food, and a man in a white shirt and grey hair reaches toward it. A bare-chested elderly man in white dhoti holds a steel plate of food, and a child in an orange shirt stands nearby. Pink paper plates and a dense queue fill the foreground, with trees and an orange wall behind.2017-05-10A 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.2009-01-18May 10 20172017-05-10A crowded outdoor food-distribution scene under a large striped tent canopy with purple, orange, teal and red panels and patterned fabric. Many people, mostly in white shirts and dhotis or saris, queue and stand at tables holding plates and food. A woman in a pink sari and jasmine-garlanded hair stands at the left, and a woman in a lavender salwar holds a plate in the foreground. Loudspeakers and banners hang along the side, and a building with blue-framed windows stands at left.2009-07-17 +1 copiesA dense crowd of devotees gathered under a long red and white patterned canopy strung with colourful bunting and tied to bamboo poles. Most men wear white shirts and white dhotis, and several carry small brass or steel plates with offerings. A woman in the foreground wears a dark red blouse and a white garland in her hair, and another woman in a pink sari stands at left. The people stand shoulder to shoulder in a queue moving through the tent, with an open field and trees visible beyond the canopy.2009-07-26A crowded outdoor food distribution under a large maroon and brown canopy supported by bamboo poles. Men in white shirts and trousers, some with white or red ID badges, stand at the front serving food in clear plastic containers, while a man at lower right bends over a steel tray. Women in saris and salwar, some wearing orange, red and pink saris and white shawls, wait with plates and containers in the dense crowd. Steel serving vessels and food packets line the table at lower right. Buildings and parked vehicles are visible behind the tent.2009-08-02Outdoor 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