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A photograph of a crowded dining hall with stainless steel tables and attendees seated and standing in a line at long steel counters holding metal plates of food. Many women wear colourful saris in red, orange, blue, green and pink, with long braids visible. Several men in white shirts and orange shawls or stoles serve or move among the diners. Ceiling fans, fluorescent lights, tiled pink walls and a wall speaker are visible, and a bottled water is on the table. This appears to be an annadan style communal meal service.

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A photograph of a large dining hall with a long grey steel table in the foreground where many women sit on stools eating from stainless steel plates and bowls. Many women wear white saris with coloured borders and white blouses, while others wear pink, yellow, orange and blue saris. Several women in the foreground have hair in long plaits, and one wears a white top with a yellow sari. Overhead ceiling fans, fluorescent lights and beige tiled walls frame the room. The setting suggests an annadan meal service at a large gathering.2006-12-16A dining hall at an event where diners sit at long steel tables eating from metal plates, many women in white, pink and yellow saris and salwar with bindis and bangles. A standing figure in an orange head cloth and orange robe with a long beaded necklace moves between the tables, with stainless steel buckets of food on a side table. A young man in white with an orange shawl stands nearby, and staff in white and orange serve food. The scene suggests an annadan style community meal. Ceiling lights and tiled walls frame the room.2006-12-16December 16 20062006-12-16December 16 20062006-12-16Photograph of a crowded indoor dining hall with pink-tiled walls, ceiling fans and fluorescent lights. A man in an orange saffron turban, orange robe and rudraksha mala stands centre-right beside a steel counter of large metal pots, with a younger man in white and an orange shawl nearby. Many women in colourful saris and salwar kameez, some carrying steel plates and trays, move through the room or wait in line. Caption text marks it as a person Spurana convention day 3 at Avadi, Chennai. The orange-turbaned man shows a person cues: orange turban, saffron robe and rudraksha mala, though his face is not clear enough to confirm.2006-12-16A large dining hall at a convention in Avadi, Chennai, where women and some men sit along long steel serving counters eating from metal plates and bowls under ceiling fans and fluorescent lights. In the foreground, an older woman with grey hair wears a pale peach sari and another in a light blue sari sits at the counter. Further back, a few people in saffron and orange garments move through the hall, and a man in a white shirt stands at the right edge. The walls are tiled in pinkish-brown and the room is busy with attendees being served a meal.2006-12-16 +1 copiesDecember 16 20062006-12-16December 16 20062006-12-16December 16 20062006-12-162005 - NSP IN TAMIL NADUIndoor photograph of a busy communal kitchen or dining hall with tiled walls, fluorescent tube lights and ceiling fans. At the centre, a figure in a saffron-orange robe and matching orange turban stands at a steel serving counter, ladling food from a large steel vessel into a plate. Around them, women in white and red-bordered saris and a line of people in white and orange shawls wait with plates; one woman in the foreground wears a red scarf and a red bindi. a person for the saffron-robed server with the orange turban and long hair, serving food in an annadan-style meal line; the cues are the orange turban and robe. Pots, steel trays and kitchen shelves fill the background.2006-12-16A dining hall serving food at a convention, with a line of women seated at a steel counter holding metal plates. A standing person in a saffron-orange garment with an orange head wrap stands behind a serving counter with steel pots, serving food. Several staff in white kurta-style clothes with orange shawls and volunteer lanyards move around the room. Ceiling fans, pink tiled walls and fluorescent lights are visible.2006-12-16