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Outdoor annadan food service under a striped canopy at a free medical camp. A young man with long dark hair, wearing a white kurta and an orange-saffron shawl, stands at a table serving food from a metal pot onto leaf plates. Beside him an older man in white clothes, with a rudraksha mala and a white shawl, helps serve. Seated villagers, mostly women in colourful saris and salwars, sit at long wooden tables and blue plastic chairs eating. Behind them hang painted fabric panels with deity figures and a peacock motif. The candidate with long hair and saffron shawl is a probable Swamiji by appearance cues, shown serving food.

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Annadhan in 20072007-01-29Outdoor free meal served under a large red and yellow patterned canopy beside a tree, with long wooden tables and blue plastic chairs. Many seated men, women and children eat from leaf plates. A standing man in white clothes with an orange shawl serves food at the center, and another man in white stands at left. Women wear saris in bright colours and flowers in their hair. Hanging cloth panels with colourful deity and mandala designs line the tent walls. The scene is a free food distribution at a camp.2007-10-07October 07 20072007-10-07September 23 20072007-09-23September 03 20072007-09-03 +1 copiesJuly 15 20072007-07-15 +1 copiesA photo of a communal meal served under a large patterned tent with red, green and orange medallion fabric and purple-and-white draped side curtains. Rows of blue-topped tables and red plastic chairs seat many children and adults eating from leaf plates. Several men in white shirts and dhotis serve food from steel pots, including a man in a white shirt and white scarf holding a steel pot, and a man in a white shirt carrying a pot at right. A woman in an orange sari stands among the diners. A man in a light jacket stands at the left edge. The scene appears to be a food distribution at a community gathering.2007-09-02October 07 20072007-10-07 +1 copiesA free meal being served under a tent lined with red and purple printed cloth panels showing deity figures and peacocks. A volunteer in white kurta with an orange shawl stands at left serving rice from a steel pot onto a leaf plate, while a woman in white with an orange shawl and another volunteer in white serve at a long table. Rows of seated men, women and children in colourful saris and clothes eat from leaf plates on plastic chairs and wooden benches.2007-10-07 +2 copiesA seated meal service under a tent hung with red and purple printed cloths showing peacocks, mandala-like circular motifs and stylised figures. A young man in a white kurta and white dhoti with an orange saffron shawl stands at right, serving food from a large steel bucket with a ladle onto leaf plates. Several men and boys sit at long metal-topped tables with plastic chairs, eating rice and curries from plates. An elderly man with white hair and beard sits in a checked shirt in the foreground. Another white-clad attendant stands in the background. Plastic chairs in red and blue are visible. The scene reads as an annadan food distribution.2007-09-23August 26 20072007-08-26 +2 copiesA photograph of an outdoor annadhan meal served under a striped canopy at a person Annalaya. Diners sit at long wooden tables on blue plastic chairs, eating from green banana leaves. Volunteers in white dhotis and saffron-orange shawls serve food, one carrying a steel bowl of food. Colourful printed cloth backdrops with peacock and mandala motifs hang behind the tables. Several people are seated and eating, and a few standing servers are visible.2007-01-29