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Outdoor courtyard meal service beside a pale blue-and-white building with a balcony and window grille. Several adults sit on red plastic chairs at tables, eating from steel plates and bowls. Women in saris and salwar stand at a row of tables with large steel pots, serving food. A man in a white shirt and light trousers stands at the serving table. A barefoot young boy in a checked shirt holds a plate and a small snack. A yellow wall poster with Tamil text and images hangs on the white wall, and garlands decorate a doorway. No ritual figure or identifiable a person depiction is visible. Dusty ground and tree shade surround the scene.

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An outdoor meal service in a dusty courtyard beside a pale blue multi-storey building and a whitewashed wall with a red-and-yellow poster. Devotees in white clothes sit on red plastic chairs along a brick wall, holding steel plates of food. Volunteers in white saris and a man in a white shirt and dark trousers serve from a folding table with steel vessels. A small boy in a blue shirt stands in the centre. Trees shade the upper left.2006-11-01November 01 20062006-11-01February 14 2009 -Kalpataru Convention at Chennai Tamilnadu2009-02-14A photograph of a community food distribution outdoors under a tarpaulin with a green and maroon edge, beside a green-walled house with a corrugated roof. Volunteers in white shirts and a white sari serve yellow rice from a large steel pot into steel plates, while villagers crowd in holding out plates. Women wear teal, blue and white saris with gold jewellery; a boy in a blue shirt holds a plate. A banner with Tamil text stands behind the serving table.2012-01-02Outdoor street scene in a town with a red roadside banner showing a smiling man in an orange-saffron head covering, with Tamil text on the banner. In the foreground a man in a white shirt and white dhoti holds a long garland of white and red flowers. A woman in a cream saree with gold border carries a brass vessel with flowers, and another woman in a teal blue embroidered saree carries a silver plate with food and a lamp-like offering. Several men in white shirts and dhotis stand around them, with a yellow vehicle partly visible at right and a crowd behind. The scene resembles a devotee welcoming ritual procession.2014-07-01A 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 photograph of a seated community meal in an open-sided thatched pavilion. A man with long curly hair and a full beard, dressed in orange kurta and dhoti, stands centre holding a tray of food. Around him many seated people in orange and saffron clothes, some with orange head cloths and rudraksha malas, eat from banana leaves on the floor. A man in white dhoti and shirt stands behind, and a steel pot of cooked rice sits at lower left. Some men hold drums. Several people stand in the background, including a woman in a blue and yellow sari. The scene resembles an annadan or prasadam distribution. A partial banner at upper right shows a painted figure in orange and white.2011-01-16A photograph of a long communal meal line inside an orange-walled hall with a covered veranda. Men, women and children stand and sit in a queue; a seated man in a white shirt eats from a steel plate of yellow rice at a white table, while others along the table hold plates and blue plastic chairs are arranged in front. A woman in a dark green striped sari stands in the foreground and a girl in a red blouse and white skirt stands nearby. Posters with faded portraits hang on the orange wall. No identifiable a person is visible.2012-09-28 +1 copiesJune 03 20122012-06-03A large outdoor annadhan meal under a tent with colourful printed cloth panels on the walls. Long wooden tables are lined with seated villagers eating from leaf plates, many in saffron-free everyday clothes, with women in green and blue saris. Several young volunteers in white dhotis and white shirts with orange shawls serve food and carry a cardboard box, and a bearded man in saffron robes stands near the tables. A large steel vessel is at left. Red earth ground and palm trees are visible beyond the tent.2008-01-13Outdoor annadan meal under a colourful striped canopy with patterned red and maroon cloths draped along the side. Several people stand and sit at metal tables with red plastic chairs, eating from paper plates. Women in sarees, a boy in a white school uniform, and men in white shirts and dhotis are visible, with a man in a maroon shirt and orange dhoti serving food. Trees and open sand fill the background.2006-11-24 +2 copiesFebruary 07 20172017-02-07 +1 copies