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A long covered open-air canopy with a corrugated roof on blue steel posts serves a crowded communal meal. Many people in white shirts and white saris line both sides of a long table, some holding plates and steel tumblers while others queue and serve food from large pots. Shade trees and red, orange and green festoon decorations stretch behind the canopy. On the right yellow wall hangs a framed portrait and a small white-draped altar table. A banner reading Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam Temples is partly visible at the back. The scene looks like an annadan style community lunch.

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A long covered walkway with a corrugated translucent roof and blue steel posts serves as an annadan dining line. Crowds of devotees stand and sit along it, many in white ritual clothes, with a few in orange, purple and yellow saris. Volunteers in white shirts and gloves serve food from steel pots and trays onto plates held by people in the foreground, including a woman in a white sari with a red dot wearing gloves. Garlands hang along the far wall beside a framed portrait, and colourful festoon bunting decorates the trees and tents outside. Dense crowd, roughly a hundred or more people visible across the scene.2009-01-18A large outdoor food distribution line under a corrugated metal shelter beside a yellow building. Many devotees in white and cream clothing queue along a long table covered with a red checked cloth, holding paper plates and receiving rice and food from servers. Women in saris, including one in a light blue sari with an ID badge and one in a mustard-orange sari, stand in the foreground. Male volunteers in white shirts and white dhotis serve from the table. Near the right edge, a volunteer in white with an orange stole walks past, and a framed portrait hangs on the yellow wall. Colourful tent canopies and trees are visible beyond.2009-01-18A crowded outdoor food distribution under a large maroon and brown canopy supported by bamboo poles. Men in white shirts and trousers, some with white or red ID badges, stand at the front serving food in clear plastic containers, while a man at lower right bends over a steel tray. Women in saris and salwar, some wearing orange, red and pink saris and white shawls, wait with plates and containers in the dense crowd. Steel serving vessels and food packets line the table at lower right. Buildings and parked vehicles are visible behind the tent.2009-08-02August 02 20092009-08-02Annadhan in 20082009-01-01 +2 copiesA large crowd of devotees queues under a dark canopy at an outdoor food serving area, collecting meals from a long green-topped counter. Many women wear saris and salwar kameez in mixed colours, some with lanyards and ID badges; men in white shirts and dhotis stand among them. Several hold steel plates or plastic trays of food, and a stainless-steel vessel sits on the counter. Palm trees and a white building are visible beyond the tent. The scene looks like an annadan or community meal line; the crowd is too dense to count precisely.2009-11-28May 10 20172017-05-10A photograph of volunteers serving food under a blue corrugated metal roof at an outdoor event. Several women wearing white clothes with coloured borders and rudraksha malas serve food from steel pots and trays into paper plates held out by a line of people. The woman at the right wears a white saree with a golden-brown border and a long dark rudraksha mala. The woman at the left wears glasses and a pink top, and volunteers wear blue lanyard badges. Palm trees and tent poles are visible outside. No a person candidate is visible.2009-11-28A crowded outdoor food-distribution scene under a large striped tent canopy with purple, orange, teal and red panels and patterned fabric. Many people, mostly in white shirts and dhotis or saris, queue and stand at tables holding plates and food. A woman in a pink sari and jasmine-garlanded hair stands at the left, and a woman in a lavender salwar holds a plate in the foreground. Loudspeakers and banners hang along the side, and a building with blue-framed windows stands at left.2009-07-17 +1 copiesA large crowd gathers under a thatched canopy supported by wooden posts, apparently for a communal meal. Several servers in white shirts and white caps stand at a long table serving food onto steel plates, with a large steel pot and covered steel dishes in front. Guests in saris, kurtas and shirts hold plates and stand chatting, including a woman in a green sari and a man in a teal kurta. The open water or plaza behind the canopy is visible at left.2010-02-04A long thatched-roof hall decorated with orange paper streamers serves a communal meal. Rows of people in white clothes queue along a steel serving counter where attendants hand out food on metal plates. Diners sit on long wooden benches at tables on the right. A woman in a white sari with a white flower garland in her braid stands in the foreground, and another woman in white wears a rudraksha-style mala. Several men wear white shirts and dhotis, and some wear checked shirts. Blue steel support poles run along the hall.2009-08-05A dense crowd of devotees gathered under a long red and white patterned canopy strung with colourful bunting and tied to bamboo poles. Most men wear white shirts and white dhotis, and several carry small brass or steel plates with offerings. A woman in the foreground wears a dark red blouse and a white garland in her hair, and another woman in a pink sari stands at left. The people stand shoulder to shoulder in a queue moving through the tent, with an open field and trees visible beyond the canopy.2009-07-26