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Outdoor relief kitchen under a striped purple, green and white canopy with patterned cloth hangings. Large aluminium cooking pots with lids sit on the sandy ground, and volunteers in white shirts, white dhotis and hairnets stir and serve food. A woman in a red blouse and dark sari sits on the ground chopping tomatoes into a steel tub, and a bowl of cashews sits in the foreground. A man in a red shirt and jeans stands at left. Some volunteers wear green hairnets. The scene reflects annadaan food service at a cyclone relief camp.

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January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor food preparation under a corrugated metal shelter at a relief camp in a damaged village area. Large dark metal cooking pots sit on open wood fires on the sandy ground, with a lidded pot in the foreground and smoke rising. Several people in white or light head coverings and hairnets sit on blue tarpaulins chopping vegetables, while volunteers in saffron and white clothing stand and move between tables. A red truck, orange gas cylinders, plastic chairs, sacks of grain and a pile of chopped green vegetables are visible. Trees and debris lie beyond the shelter.2012-01-06A large open-sided tent serves a community food operation outdoors under a corrugated roof and palm trees. Several workers wear white head cloths; one in a white shirt and white trousers stands center. A woman in a yellow and orange sari and head cloth works at a steel tray. Large steel cooking pots and drums sit on the dirt floor, and blue tarpaulin covers a table with trays of green beans and chopped tomatoes. Men in checked shirts and lungis move among the pots, and sacks are stacked at the right.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor relief kitchen under a tarpaulin and bamboo-pole shelter, with large aluminium cooking pots set on metal stands over firewood and a red LPG gas cylinder at right. Several workers in green caps and white clothing tend the pots, and a few people in white dhotis and shirts stand among the crowd. Wet muddy ground and striped cloth canopies frame the scene. A man in white dhoti with bare upper body and a white-clad companion stand near the center, but no swami-like cues are clearly visible, so identity is uncertain. Several people are visible in the background.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor cyclone relief kitchen under a striped fabric canopy and tarpaulin roof, with volunteers cooking annadaan meals in large steel pots on open stoves. Several workers wear white dhotis, white shirts and white hair-nets; a woman in a red-and-orange sari wears gloves and stands at a steel pot in the foreground. A man in a white shirt and dhoti stirs a pot, and a cameraman films beside the cooking area.2012-01-06Outdoor food preparation under a corrugated roof on bare dirt ground at a relief camp. Large aluminium cooking pots and steel vessels sit on portable metal stoves and tripods, with a blue tarp holding white rice sacks and vegetables on the left. Several men in white caps and hairnets work among the pots; one in a white shirt and blue lungi stands at right, and others in orange or white cloths and mixed clothing move around the cooking area. Plastic chairs, a truck and parked vehicles appear in the background under palm trees.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.2012-01-07January 06 20122012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04