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Outdoor annadan meal line in a dusty compound with red-roofed buildings and palm fronds. Many devotees queue holding metal plates, with a red water tanker and a white-and-blue RDS truck behind them. Foreground figures include a man in a white shirt and blue-checked lungi, a bald older man in white with a green towel draped over his shoulder, a man in a striped shirt, and a woman in an orange saree with a long braid. Another man wears a pink towel and carries a green cloth bag printed A.P.N. A white metal railing runs along the left edge. Photographed in daylight during a Karthikai Deepam event at Tiruvannamalai.

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November 27 20122012-11-27November 27 20122012-11-27A photograph of a crowd queuing outdoors for a meal distribution. A bald older man in a white shirt and white dhoti holds a steel plate and stands bent forward. A younger man in a striped white shirt and a man in a teal t-shirt and dark trousers also carry steel plates. A woman in a teal sari and a woman in a maroon sari with gold embroidery stand nearby, and a few people in the background wear white. Parked cars and a red-brick building are visible behind them.2012-11-27November 27 20122012-11-27Photo 8277633 +2 copiesNovember 27 20122012-11-27November 27 20122012-11-27A photograph of an outdoor annadan meal line at a festival site. Rows of stacked stainless steel plates sit on long metal tables in the foreground. A man in a white shirt and a teal head covering stands at the tables handing out plates, while a man in white with a teal cap works beside him. Devotees crowd the line: a man in a light blue checked shirt at left, a woman in a green sari and a young woman in an orange and purple sari at right, and a child in the background. Palm trees and a hillside stand behind the crowd.2012-11-27A long queue of men and boys waits along a dusty path beneath a canopy hung with coloured bunting and tied to palm fronds on bamboo poles. On the right, a man in white shirt and dhoti and a woman in an orange sari with gold border serve food from steel plates, handing it to people in line. A yellow bus with a person banner stands behind them, and a pink flowering tree shows at the top right. Men wear white shirts, pink shirts, maroon shirts and checked lungis, and one boy wears a blue shirt. No one in the scene is identified as a person.2012-11-27November 27 20122012-11-27April 06 20122012-04-06November 27 20122012-11-27