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A crowded dining hall with pale blue-green walls, exposed corrugated metal ceiling, wall fans and a fluorescent tube light. Many people, mostly women in saris and salwar kameez, stand and sit on white plastic chairs, some holding steel plates of food, including a child in a striped shirt and a woman in a blue top in the foreground. A large glass-walled doorway frames the scene on the right, and a few people are queueing along a serving counter on the left.

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A 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 copiesA crowded indoor dining hall with a high steel-trussed roof and rows of louvred windows. Many people in white and cream clothes queue and move among tables, carrying steel plates of rice and food. A woman in a cream sari with orange border holds a plate in the centre, while a man in a white shirt with a visitor badge stands in front. Several women wear orange and yellow saris, and others wear pink and blue. Cooks in white uniforms work at steel serving counters in the background, serving prasadam to devotees during an annadan meal.2009-08-06December 25 20072007-12-25A 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 large white-walled hall with ceiling fans and steel trusses holds a crowded communal meal. Many people in white and light clothing sit at long steel tables and rows of blue plastic chairs, eating from metal plates. Women in saris, including a yellow sari and an orange sari, stand carrying plates and serving or moving between tables. A man in a striped shirt walks through the aisle. A woman in teal sits on the floor at lower left with a plate, and a man in white sits cross-legged on the floor at lower centre. Badges hang from some necks. A poster is pinned to the left wall.2008-06-20December 25 20072007-12-25A crowded indoor dining hall where many women queue with stainless steel plates for a meal service. Several women in white and cream saris and salwar kameez stand in a line near a serving counter, while a woman in an orange sari and gold necklace sits in the foreground holding a plate. Another woman in a white sari with glasses sits at a table with papers. Ceiling fans, pink tiled walls and fluorescent lights are visible.2006-12-14A crowded communal dining hall where women seated at long steel tables eat from metal plates of food, while others stand and serve. A sannyasi in a saffron-orange robe with a long orange head covering and beaded necklace stands at the center-right, appearing to serve or assist. Other attendants wear white, and women wear saris in yellow, blue, orange and purple. Steel serving pots and trays line the counter, under fluorescent lights and ceiling fans.2006-12-16January 04 20102010-01-04 +1 copiesA photograph of a large tiled dining hall under a curved corrugated roof with ceiling fans and speakers. Rows of people sit at long steel tables and white plastic chairs eating from steel plates. A woman in a white sari with an orange border walks down the centre aisle, and staff in white and orange stand near a serving counter at the back. Windows with red grilles line the walls, and a small orange cloth hangs near the counter. This is a communal meal service.2010-07-03 +1 copies2005 - NSP IN TAMIL NADUJune 20 20082008-06-20