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Outdoor relief kitchen under a blue-and-white tarpaulin canopy with large steaming aluminium cooking pots set on portable stoves. Men in white vests and checked lungis stir the food with long wooden paddles, wearing green head caps. A man bends over a pot in the centre. Onlookers in light shirts, sarongs and a woman in a blue sari stand around. Steel vessels and a small tray of sweets sit on a table nearby, with a gas cylinder at lower left. This shows food preparation for annadan distribution.

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January 04 20122012-01-04January 07 20122012-01-07A covered outdoor kitchen tent at a relief camp, with large steel cooking pots set on portable stoves and steam rising. Several men in white hairnets and white shirts stir the pots and serve food, one holding a ladle and another a steel bowl. Men in white shirts, a red shirt and a dark vest stand behind them watching, one wearing an orange dhoti and a white shawl. Bags of supplies, steel tumblers and lidded pots fill the foreground, with palm trees and striped tent canopies beyond. This is an annadaan food service scene.2012-01-06A photograph of a large outdoor community kitchen under a red patterned canopy, with palm trees behind. Four men work over big stainless steel cooking pots set on portable stoves. The man at right, in a white shirt, plaid lungi and white head cloth with a green cap, tips a steel pot of food into the large central vessel. Another man in a red shirt and blue checked lungi stirs with a long ladle, while a man in an orange vest and white dhoti stands at left, and a man in a blue striped shirt stands behind. Painted cloth banners showing landscapes hang at left. Pots and bowls sit on a concrete floor.2012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor food preparation under a tarpaulin canopy with palm trees behind. Two men in white shirts and grey trousers, wearing light green hairnets and ID lanyards, stir large steaming metal cooking pots set directly on bare ground. One man on the left grips a long-handled ladle and the other stirs with a long spoon. Behind them, a table holds food supplies, bags, and a red gas cylinder, and several women in colourful saris and a monk in saffron-orange robes are visible in the background near a white van and a truck.2012-01-04Outdoor relief kitchen under a corrugated metal canopy at night, lit by bright white floodlights, with steam rising from large steel cooking pots set on iron stoves. A man in a light green shirt and checked lungi holds a long ladle over a big steel pot of food, while another man in an orange shirt, pink head cloth and checked lungi stands beside stacked steel vessels. A red LPG gas cylinder sits between the stoves. A colourful patterned cloth hangs at the upper left, and a green mini truck and parked white vehicle appear in the background among palm trees. Several people in white are visible further back among tables. The scene reflects cyclone relief cooking in progress.2012-01-07A photograph of a food preparation area under colourful striped canopy awnings with red and green patterned fabric hanging behind. Several men in lungis and shirts, some wearing green and white hairnets, stand around large steel cooking pots and vessels. Foreground shows a steel bowl of chopped vegetables, a yellow-stained bucket and a steel container. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti stands at left stirring a large pot. Scattered litter lies on the ground.2012-01-04Outdoor community cooking station for cyclone relief, set in hazy early light amid uprooted palms and debris. Several men and women cook over open wood fires in large dark metal pots and pans. A man in a white shirt and checked lungi stirs a pot, while others in headcloths and green or pink head covers tend fires and vessels. A steel lota with red marking sits in front. Scattered aluminium containers and wooden poles surround the makeshift kitchen.2012-01-07Outdoor food-preparation under a red and maroon patterned tarpaulin. Four men work at large metal pots on portable burners and gas cylinders: a man in a red shirt and blue-checked lungi ladles from a big steel pot, a bare-chested man in a brown vest pours from a steel vessel, and two men in white and light-blue head coverings stand by. Behind them hang painted banners with landscape scenes, and palm trees and scattered pots fill the background. No a person candidate is visible.2012-01-04Open-sided shed with a corrugated metal roof serves as a community kitchen for food distribution. A man in a white shirt and checked lungi with a red head cloth stirs a large pot with a long metal ladle over a wood fire. Several large aluminium cooking pots and steel vessels sit on the sandy ground and on stoves, with bags of rice and piled greens nearby. Other workers in white and plain clothing, some with head coverings, move around the stations. A green-leafed tree line and a hazy sky appear beyond the shed.2012-01-06Outdoor relief kitchen under a striped blue, green, pink and white canopy, with steam rising from large steel cooking pots set on portable burners. Several women in red and orange saris and men in white shirts and hairnets stir and ladle food from the big pots, with more workers and passersby visible in the background tents and open ground.2012-01-07