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Overhead photo of a food offering laid out on a woven mat on a concrete floor, arranged on brass plates and steel vessels. Brass plates hold a ring of red cherry tomatoes, a heap of yellow lemons, green beans and pods, a mix of sliced vegetables and green chillies, and golden fried fritters. Steel pots contain a brown dish of cooked vegetables, a white curd or yogurt preparation with green herbs, and a yellow dal or vegetable curry in a steel bowl. Ripe bananas sit on a brass plate at the top. No people are visible. The layout suggests a prasadam or annadan food offering.

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November 10 20112011-11-10November 10 20112011-11-10Overhead view of many small round disposable plates laid in rows on a grey stone floor, each lined with a green banana leaf and covered in cling film. The plates hold offerings of cooked and raw food: yellow lentil and rice preparations, white rice, dried fruit, green limes, carrots, beans, a green pumpkin, sprouts and sweets. A folded white dhoti with a gold border and a red and green silk cloth lie at the lower edge. No people are visible. The arrangement suggests a ritual food offering set out before a puja.2017-07-07November 05 20062006-11-05December 16 20102010-12-16Overhead view of a red-floored ritual space covered with trays and steel plates of offerings. Bananas, green beans, tomatoes, apples, limes, cut sweets, packaged snacks, nuts, coconut-shaped sweets and fruit are arranged, with bundles of coloured cloth and folded saffron-bordered textiles at right. Several people in white dhoti-style clothes and an orange-red shawl stand at the upper edge, reaching toward the offerings.2008-07-17December 26 20152015-12-26Top-down photo of an offering spread on a reddish-brown wooden table: bowls of sweets and savouries, orange and yellow pulses, bananas, round green fruits, pomegranate-red fruit, a steel plate of dark brown bananas, and red flowers and white garlands near a brass vessel. Only a person's white-trousered legs are visible at the left edge, so one person is partly in frame. Food offerings suggest a puja or annadan setting, but no clear figure is shown. Scattered petals lie on the wood.2006-10-31July 07 20172017-07-07A floor spread of offerings for a ritual, laid on red and magenta cloths over a grey floor. Plates of bananas, oranges, apples, green grapes, mangoes, almonds, a cluster of dates or dried fruit, coconuts, cubes of paneer or white sweet, and aluminium trays of round sweets and a golden halwa-like dessert sit beside brass thalis, a brass lamp, folded silk saris or shawls in red, blue and pink, and a bowl of yoghurt. No people are visible, and no a person candidate appears.2011-04-20A photograph of a large floor arrangement of food offerings laid out in rows on a stone-paved floor, most. Dozens of disposable paper plates each hold a different dish: grains, lentils, pulses, cooked rice preparations, vegetables, dried fruit and sweets, many set on green banana leaves. Bananas hang in a bunch at the upper left beside a kalasha-like container and a red cloth. A woven basket of red fruit sits at the left edge. No people are visible in the frame.2017-07-07October 15 20102010-10-15