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A serving line for a communal meal inside a hall with a pale pink wall and draped white fabric overhead, decorated with colourful striped pillars. Women in hairnets and clear plastic gloves ladle food from steel pots and buckets onto stacked round leaf plates across a long steel counter. Several people in white and pastel kurtas and saris hold out plates, with a woman in a green sari and dark blouse serving at the front. Stacks of disposable plates sit on the counter.

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A serving line for a communal meal in a bright ashram hall with pale walls and colourful painted pillars at the top left. Several women in gloves and hairnets serve food from stainless steel pots onto stacks of disposable leaf plates on a steel counter. A woman in a green and lime saree with a red bangle serves at the centre, while a woman in white hands a plate across the counter. Visitors in white and pastel salwar kameez line up holding plates of vegetable curry and rice. Stacks of leaf plates sit in the foreground.2011-07-20 +1 copiesDecember 16 20172017-12-16A photograph of a communal meal service in a hall with white walls and a tiled counter. Several women in white and orange clothing serve food from large steel pots using ladles and tongs, filling metal plates with rice and vegetable dishes. A woman in the foreground wearing a striped top, glasses, gold bangles and a dark beaded necklace holds a plate of rice. Other women wear white saris and salwar kameez in pink, green and white, some with beaded necklaces. Gloves are worn by the servers. A few people stand near a doorway at the left background. No a person candidate is visible.2010-02-21A busy communal meal service in a whitewashed hall. Women in white aprons and clear plastic gloves serve food from large stainless steel pots on a counter, ladling rice, a milky dish and orange vegetable curry onto plates. Devotees queue along the counter holding steel plates of rice, puri and orange curry. A woman in a pink salwar kameez with a salmon dupatta and a man in white with an ID badge stand in line, and an elderly woman in glasses holds a plate. A woman in a red and pink kurta and another in a blue top look on. A woman in an orange sari sits at the far right edge. Small paper cups are stacked beside the pots and red ventilation blocks sit high on the wall.2010-02-21Annadan food service at an ashram canteen. A woman in white sari with gold border and a red coral-bead necklace serves rice from a steel tray onto paper-lined plates. Other servers in white, wearing clear plastic gloves and hairnets, ladle curry and rice from steel containers. Elderly women and devotees in the foreground hold out plates to receive food. A boy in white shirt stands at left. No one in the scene is identifiable as a person.2017-05-10October 14 20122012-10-14 +1 copiesAnnadhan in 20132013-01-01 +1 copiesFebruary 26 20132013-02-26 +2 copiesDecember 16 20172017-12-16A food service line inside an indoor hall with a white tent-style ceiling and a yellow and blue decorative hanging. A woman in a white head covering, white blouse and white apron with gold border, wearing gloves, serves food from a large steel pot into the plates held by women in cotton saris. Stacks of disposable leaf plates sit on the counter. Women in saris, including one in a green blouse and another in a white sari with orange border, wait in line holding steel plates. A girl in a striped top stands behind them. Behind the counter a few other women stand near a doorway.2010-08-19A serving line of volunteers in an ashram dining hall serves food from steel pots onto metal plates. In the foreground a young man in white with glasses and rudraksha beads serves from a pot, while a woman in white with a blue lanyard wears plastic gloves and ladles food. Behind them a woman in a white headscarf and white top, a woman in a grey top, and a woman in a lilac sari with a red-haired young woman in a white top stand at the counter. The background is an orange patterned curtain.2009-11-18A photograph of a food service line inside a metal-roofed hall with red-painted steel beams. Volunteers in white hairnets serve food from stainless steel chafing trays: rice, a golden-yellow dish, and brown curry. A man in a white dhoti with a gold border and a rudraksha mala serves at the front; a woman in a cream sari with gold border holds a steel plate of rice and yellow food. Other volunteers in white shirts and a blue shirt stand behind the counter. Rice and curry fill the trays under a steel sneeze guard.2019-01-20