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A photograph of an open-sided relief camp under a corrugated metal roof and a striped red, green and blue canopy, with sandy ground. Women in white with green head coverings and orange-bordered saris prepare food; large black cooking pots and steel vessels sit on blue tarpaulins beside sacks of grain and piles of cabbage. Steel pots and a bucket sit on the ground in the foreground, and a man in white with a camera is at left. Palm trees and tents show beyond the shelter. Several people, including those at the stove area and in the background, are visible.

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January 04 20122012-01-04A open-sided corrugated metal shelter on bare sandy ground serves as a community kitchen during relief work. Large black and metal cooking pots sit over small wood fires, with stacked white rice sacks and blue tarpaulins spread on the ground. Several women in colourful saris and men in shirts and white dhotis work around the pots, some wearing head coverings and a few wearing blue or yellow shirts. Palm trees and debris are visible beyond the shelter. No ceremony or a person is shown.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04Outdoor relief camp under a corrugated metal roof with wooden posts, sheltering a food distribution (annadaan) operation in a village setting with palm trees. Volunteers in white surgical caps and hairnets sit on the ground chopping vegetables from sacks of produce and stir large steel cooking pots. Blue tarpaulin is spread with rice and grain sacks and steel containers. Many people mill about in mixed clothing, some in white. In the right foreground a man in a white dhoti with an orange-yellow border stands barefoot, his back partly turned to the camera; he is not further identified. Plastic chairs and a red bucket are scattered around the site.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06A 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.2012-01-04Open-sided shed with a corrugated metal roof serves as a community kitchen for food distribution. A man in a white shirt and checked lungi with a red head cloth stirs a large pot with a long metal ladle over a wood fire. Several large aluminium cooking pots and steel vessels sit on the sandy ground and on stoves, with bags of rice and piled greens nearby. Other workers in white and plain clothing, some with head coverings, move around the stations. A green-leafed tree line and a hazy sky appear beyond the shed.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04Outdoor cyclone relief kitchen under a striped fabric canopy and tarpaulin roof, with volunteers cooking annadaan meals in large steel pots on open stoves. Several workers wear white dhotis, white shirts and white hair-nets; a woman in a red-and-orange sari wears gloves and stands at a steel pot in the foreground. A man in a white shirt and dhoti stirs a pot, and a cameraman films beside the cooking area.2012-01-06Outdoor cooking area under a long striped tarpaulin canopy in purple, green, white and red, with scalloped edges, supported by bamboo poles and palm trees behind. Large black cooking pots and steel pots sit on open stoves and makeshift burners on bare sandy ground. Several women in head coverings and saris, one in an orange top and blue lungi, tend the cooking and carry vessels, while a few other figures move in the background. A red gas cylinder stands near the stoves and steel buckets lie on the ground. The scene suggests a community annadaan meal setting.2012-01-06Outdoor relief kitchen under a tarpaulin and bamboo-pole shelter, with large aluminium cooking pots set on metal stands over firewood and a red LPG gas cylinder at right. Several workers in green caps and white clothing tend the pots, and a few people in white dhotis and shirts stand among the crowd. Wet muddy ground and striped cloth canopies frame the scene. A man in white dhoti with bare upper body and a white-clad companion stand near the center, but no swami-like cues are clearly visible, so identity is uncertain. Several people are visible in the background.2012-01-06