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A large indoor dining hall with rows of long metal tables and benches, grey columns and fluorescent lights overhead. Several men in white dhotis and white shirts stand and chat in the foreground. A man on the left wears glasses and a white shirt with a badge, and an older man on the right in a cream-colored kurta with a shawl holds a blue cane and wears a lanyard badge. A bearded man in white sits on a bench at a table in the middle, and more people move through the hall in the background.

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December 15 20062006-12-15 +1 copiesA large dining hall at a person Spurana convention, with men in white shirts and white dhotis queuing and eating at long steel tables. Several men seated on the left eat from steel plates with their hands, while a line of men holding empty round steel plates waits on the right. Pillars, ceiling fans and fluorescent lights line the hall. No ritual or identifiable a person figure is visible.2006-12-15 +1 copiesA photograph of a large institutional dining hall with long metal tables and benches, where many men in white shirts and white dhotis or trousers are seated eating from steel plates and thalis. A line of men stands along the left, some holding plates, and a man in a checked shirt and dark trousers walks between tables. Ceiling fans, fluorescent lights and barred windows are visible. The setting resembles a communal meal at a conference or annadan-style gathering.2006-12-15A dining hall with long metal tables and stools, where men in white shirts and white dhotis queue and sit to eat. Several standing people wear white with name badges or lanyards, and one holds a white plate. Large barred windows line the pale walls, and fluorescent lights hang overhead. No one in the scene is clearly identifiable as a person.2006-12-15December 14 20062006-12-14A large indoor hall with pillars during a food distribution at a person Spurana gathering. Many people in white clothes mill about, with a cluster of men in white kurtas and a few in plain shirts. In the centre, a person in orange robes with an orange shawl carries a steel plate of food, while a man in white holds a plate of sweets or prasad. Several young men in white with orange shawls stand nearby holding steel trays of food. Serving stations line the background. The scene is an annadan style meal service.2006-12-15 +1 copiesDecember 15 20062006-12-15Photograph of a crowded dining hall during a person Spurana program, with many men in white kurta-style clothing eating from steel plates at long metal tables. A man at the right edge wears a dark rudraksha mala and white robes, holding a plate and gesturing, with a partly visible person in white beside him. Others queue along a tiled wall near a wooden door and barred windows.2006-12-15A large indoor dining hall with pale columns and ceiling fans, filled with many men in white ritual clothes. In the centre, a person in an orange saffron robe stands holding a steel tray of food, with a tray of food also being carried by a man in white beside them. Another man in white holds a plate of food and gestures toward a devotee. Several people in orange shawls and white clothing move among long serving tables, distributing food, a scene consistent with annadan at a spiritual gathering.2006-12-15 +1 copiesDecember 15 20062006-12-15December 15 20062006-12-15A photograph inside a large hall with pillars, ceiling fans and fluorescent lights. A line of men in white shirts and dhotis stands holding metal and white disposable plates, several with food on them; the man at left holds a plate of rice and side dishes. In the centre an elderly man with white hair and a white dhoti wears a string of white beads and a sacred thread, holding a steel plate. A man in a red and blue striped shirt stands beside him, and a young man in a pink shirt stands behind. The scene reads as a communal meal line at a programme. No one in the image is identified as a person.2006-12-15