Skip to content
Nithyanandapedia
A seated meal service under a tent with a painted landscape backdrop and a yellow-and-red banner. Men in orange and saffron robes sit on mats at low wooden tables laid with steel plates of rice, flatbreads, curries and sides. A man in a blue-and-white polo and dark trousers, barefoot, bends forward to serve food onto plates. A bearded sadhu in an orange robe with a red turban and rudraksha-style beads sits in the foreground, with a water bottle nearby. Green mats cover the floor and rose petals are scattered across the tables. A cameraman stands at the left edge.

More like this

Open the gallery
September 15 20152015-09-15 +2 copiesSeptember 15 20152015-09-15 +2 copiesSeptember 13 20152015-09-13 +2 copiesSeptember 15 20152015-09-15 +2 copiesA seated communal meal in a tent with pale yellow draped curtains and a green floor. Rows of sadhus in orange and saffron robes sit on low wooden benches at long tables set with steel plates and cups and bottled water. A young server in a purple jacket and white dhoti bends forward with a pot to serve. A figure in orange stands at the left, and a man in a red turban sits among the diners. Several bald and white-bearded elders are visible, with a large crowd of seated sadhus in the foreground, their backs and heads partly visible.2016-04-22A row of saffron-robed sadhus sits cross-legged on a green cloth before low wooden tables set with brass thalis of food, bowls, and rose petals. Behind them a large painted backdrop shows a lotus pond, pink lotuses, a red-and-orange deity figure, and a conch. The seated man at center wears a saffron robe, rudraksha mala, and a long braided head of hair, and he has an orange shawl beside him. To his right a sadhu in orange drinks from a steel cup, and further along men in orange and red turbans and robes eat from plates. Several sadhus have shaved heads and white beards. No one is clearly identified as a person here, so the centre man is described by role only. Visible people number about eight.2015-09-15 +2 copiesSeptember 15 20152015-09-15September 13 20152015-09-13 +1 copiesA row of saffron and orange-robed sadhus sits cross-legged on green carpet at low wooden tables, eating from metal thalis of rice, curry, flatbread and sweets, with scattered rose petals across the table and floor. The foremost figure on the left has long grey hair, a white beard, rudraksha mala beads and an orange shawl, with a tilak on his forehead. Beside him a man in a pink kurta and beard eats, followed by two men in orange turbans and robes. Behind them more elderly sadhus in pink and orange sit eating. A large painted backdrop of a hill landscape and a deity figure hangs behind them.2015-09-15 +2 copiesSeveral sadhus in orange and saffron robes sit cross-legged on a green mat before a large backdrop of a forested mountain landscape with sunbeams and a painted deity figure at upper right. Each sits behind a low wooden stool holding a steel thali with small bowls, and rose petals are scattered on the mat. Several have long white beards and sacred ash or tilak on their foreheads; one in the centre wears a rudraksha mala and an orange shawl, and another at right wears an orange turban. Plastic water bottles sit between the seats.2015-09-15A seated meal in an orange-draped tent with a painted backdrop of lotuses and a river. In the foreground a bearded man with long dark hair, a red shawl, a red tilak and wooden beaded rudraksha malas eats from a steel thali, while a woman in orange head wrap and orange robes beside him serves food. Several saffron-robed men sit in a row behind them at low wooden tables with steel plates of rice, curries, fruit and rose petals, and water bottles nearby. Green cloth covers the floor.2015-09-15 +2 copiesSeptember 15 20152015-09-15 +3 copies