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Outdoor food preparation under a tarpaulin beside a white-walled building. A woman in an orange and dark patterned sari and hairnet stirs a large steel pot. Beside her, three men in green or white hairnets and aprons work at steel vessels, one holding a red-and-white sack of rice. A young man in a khaki shirt and blue checked lungi stands watching. Bowls of chopped red beetroot, tomatoes and cooked dal sit on the ground, with a small electric grinder and sacks of grain nearby.

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Outdoor community kitchen under a corrugated metal roof with a palm grove behind. Several volunteers in white caps, aprons and white or patterned clothes stir and ladle food from large aluminium pots set over open wood fires with blackened ash. A woman in a yellow and orange sari stands at the centre, and a large steel drum in the foreground holds water. Coconut palms and a tarpaulin shelter are visible in the background.2012-01-04A photograph of an open-sided outdoor kitchen under a corrugated metal roof and tarpaulin, used for mass food preparation. Large steel cooking vessels sit on open wood fires on bare ground. Several people in white shirts and dhotis, and women in saris, wear blue-green hair caps and work around the pots and metal trays of cooked rice and prepared food. Sacks, plastic packets and bowls lie on the ground. Palm trees and a boundary wall are visible behind, and a child stands at the right. Plain work clothing and the open ground suggest a relief-food setting.2012-01-04A relief kitchen at an outdoor cyclone-relief camp in a village, with palm trees and a white building behind. Large aluminium pots hold cooked rice with vegetables in the foreground. Volunteers in white shirts and white hairnets serve food: a man in white with a rudraksha-style necklace stands at right beside a woman in a patterned sari, and men in white shirts stand at left reaching toward the food. Another woman in a purple sari walks in the background. A striped awning shades the scene, and sacks and bags are stacked on a ledge at right.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04Outdoor relief kitchen under striped canopy tents at a cyclone relief camp in Kuttiyankuppam village, Pondicherry. A woman in a magenta sari with a blue blouse and hairnet stirs food in a steel pot over a large cooking vessel. Other women in orange and white saris work at pots, vessels and tables; a woman in an orange sari carries a green bucket. Large steel pots of cooking food and rice sit on the sandy ground beneath palm trees, as annadaan food service is prepared.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04Outdoor food preparation under a long tarpaulin shelter with a dark mesh roof and wooden and metal posts. In the foreground a large heap of red tomatoes sits on a blue tarpaulin beside metal cooking pots and a white sack. Several people in white clothes and light shirts stand bent over working at the center, while women in saris and volunteers wearing white hairnets and caps sit or move among pots and plastic chairs. A large black cooking pan rests on the right. Palm trees and a sky are visible beyond the shelter. No identifiable a person figure is clearly present.2012-01-04Outdoor food preparation at a relief camp under a striped canopy with coloured cloth panels and palm trees behind. A man in an orange sleeveless top, grey head wrap and dark sarong stirs a large steaming stainless steel cooking pot with a long ladle. Nearby tables hold steel pots of chickpeas or chana, a bowl of red beans, a pot of brown sugar or jaggery, plastic packets, and covered vessels. Tarpaulins and tents stand in the background with a few other workers in white and red clothes, and the scene reads as an annadan meal service.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06January 08 20122012-01-08January 06 20122012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04