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Outdoor annadan food preparation under a corrugated metal roof on open ground with palm trees and debris behind. Large aluminium cooking pots sit on stands over propane cylinders and a gas burner, with steam rising. Several workers in white clothes and green hairnets stir and serve food. In the centre, a man in a white dhoti and white top with a reddish-brown sash stands beside a pot, and a man in a pink shirt stands near the cooking area. Steel bowls hold chopped green leaves in the foreground, and stacked steel containers and cooking vessels line the tables.

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January 04 20122012-01-04A photograph of an open-sided outdoor kitchen under a corrugated metal roof and tarpaulin, used for mass food preparation. Large steel cooking vessels sit on open wood fires on bare ground. Several people in white shirts and dhotis, and women in saris, wear blue-green hair caps and work around the pots and metal trays of cooked rice and prepared food. Sacks, plastic packets and bowls lie on the ground. Palm trees and a boundary wall are visible behind, and a child stands at the right. Plain work clothing and the open ground suggest a relief-food setting.2012-01-04Outdoor community kitchen under a corrugated metal roof with a palm grove behind. Several volunteers in white caps, aprons and white or patterned clothes stir and ladle food from large aluminium pots set over open wood fires with blackened ash. A woman in a yellow and orange sari stands at the centre, and a large steel drum in the foreground holds water. Coconut palms and a tarpaulin shelter are visible in the background.2012-01-04Outdoor 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 07 20122012-01-07A busy outdoor relief kitchen under a tarpaulin and striped canopy, where volunteers prepare food for an annadaan meal. Large metal cooking pots sit on simple iron stove stands over firewood, and men in white shirts, dhotis or aprons and white head caps stir and carry vessels. One man in an orange-red-trimmed white garment lifts a red cylinder. Stacked vegetables and metal containers sit on tables in the background, and a few other people in casual clothing move among the stalls. Bamboo poles hold up the awning. No one in the scene is identifiable as a person.2012-01-06Open-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.2012-01-06An open-sided tin-roofed shelter in a cyclone-damaged village with palm trees and fallen branches, used for a community meal (annadaan). Several men in white dhotis and white shirts, some wearing green or white hair nets, stir and serve food from large steel pots of rice. One bare-chested man wears a white dhoti with a gold-bordered cloth and a green cap; another in white shirt and dhoti stands at right with a gold wristwatch. A man in a light shirt at left wears an ID lanyard. Steel vessels of vegetables and curries line the counter.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04January 07 20122012-01-07January 04 20122012-01-04A photograph of a large open-sided shed with a corrugated metal roof, where volunteers cook a relief meal for an annadaan at a medical camp. Huge black cooking pots sit over open wood fires on the dirt floor, with steel vessels of vegetables and rice nearby, and tubelights hang from the beams. Several volunteers in white head coverings stand at the pots and tables. A man in a white dhoti with a gold border and a green head covering walks through the centre foreground, and a bare-chested man in a white dhoti works on the right. Bags of rice and blue tarpaulins lie on the left.2012-01-06