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A relief food distribution under a striped awning at an outdoor camp, with palm trees behind. Volunteers in white shirts and white hairnets serve food from large stainless steel pots and containers stacked with red and blue crates. A volunteer in white shirt and white hairnet lifts items from a truck bed. At right, a man in white dhoti and shawl with a rudraksha-style mala and gold-trimmed cloth stands smiling. Volunteers wear name badges, and a banner on the truck reads text relating to Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam Seeragapadi.

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Outdoor relief distribution at a village site under a striped canopy with palm trees behind. Several volunteers in white shirts and white hairnets stand around large steel cooking pots with lids on a metal table, while others unload red and blue plastic crates and steel pots from a white pickup truck. One volunteer on the right wears a white shirt, white dhoti and a rudraksha-style mala and looks on. A man in white clothing stands in the background near the truck. The scene reflects food service at a camp, with no clearly visible sannyasi in saffron.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04Outdoor relief food distribution under a colourful striped canopy beside palm trees. Several men in white shirts and white hair-net caps stand at a truck with an orange banner; a small group of villagers, including two young boys in checked lungis and a woman in a white sari with green border, wait in line. Stainless steel pots and a steel tiffin stand on a table at right, and a large portrait banner of a smiling saffron-robed figure hangs at upper left.2012-01-04Outdoor food-distribution scene at a roadside annadhan site under a red, green and white striped canopy with a palm grove behind. Several men and women in white dhotis and white shirts, many wearing green hairnets, work around a dark metal serving counter and a large steel cooking pot in the foreground. A man in a white T-shirt and a lanyard stands at the back of a truck bed loaded with food packages. Devotees in white clothing stand close to the counter, handling food wrapped in white paper. No a person candidate is clearly visible.2012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06Volunteers in white polo shirts printed with "NITHYANANDA DHYANAPEETAM SEERAGAPADI" and blue logos serve food at an outdoor annadaan line. Several wear white hair nets. One volunteer in an orange lungi stands at a truck's serving counter ladling from a steel vessel, while a man in a white dhoti with a yellow border stands beside him. Aluminium trays and pots sit on a metal table, and white plastic packets lie in a tray. Cars and a bare dirt ground are visible behind them.2012-01-06An open-sided tin-roofed shelter in a cyclone-damaged village with palm trees and fallen branches, used for a community meal (annadaan). Several men in white dhotis and white shirts, some wearing green or white hair nets, stir and serve food from large steel pots of rice. One bare-chested man wears a white dhoti with a gold-bordered cloth and a green cap; another in white shirt and dhoti stands at right with a gold wristwatch. A man in a light shirt at left wears an ID lanyard. Steel vessels of vegetables and curries line the counter.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04A photograph of an outdoor food-service area under a tent with a red and white patterned canopy and purple striping. Stacks of colourful plastic crates in blue, green, red, purple and yellow fill the foreground. Behind them, several women in light green, teal, maroon and pink saris wear hairnets and head covers while working near steel vats and tables. A bare-chested young man in a white dhoti with a gold border stands at left beside a wooden pole, and a man in a white shirt bends over a table. A partly visible banner and a truck stand at right.2012-01-04