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A photograph inside a dim open-sided tent used for communal food preparation. Large stainless steel cooking pots and vessels sit on the dirt floor among sacks, plastic bags, tins and a blue tarpaulin. A tent canopy with red, green and purple striped fabric and scalloped edging overhangs the scene, supported by wooden poles and rope guy lines. Fluorescent tube lights hang from the frame. Two men in white shirts and white caps or head cloths stand working near the pots, and a few other figures are partly visible in the background. The setting suggests an annadan food service at a relief camp.

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A photograph of a large open-sided shed with a corrugated metal roof, where volunteers cook a relief meal for an annadaan at a medical camp. Huge black cooking pots sit over open wood fires on the dirt floor, with steel vessels of vegetables and rice nearby, and tubelights hang from the beams. Several volunteers in white head coverings stand at the pots and tables. A man in a white dhoti with a gold border and a green head covering walks through the centre foreground, and a bare-chested man in a white dhoti works on the right. Bags of rice and blue tarpaulins lie on the left.2012-01-06A night-time outdoor relief kitchen under a striped canvas tarpaulin tent, lit by fluorescent tube lights hung from the poles. Large stainless steel cooking vessels and pots sit on the bare ground in the foreground, some with lids, and more pots and tables are arranged under the tent. Blue plastic sheets cover the floor and a patterned rug hangs at the back. A few people are faintly visible in the background, one wearing a striped shirt, working among the cooking stations. The scene reflects annadaan food service for a community medical camp, with no a person visible.2012-01-06Night-time community kitchen under a tent roofed with red, blue, green and purple striped cloth. A woman in a white sari with a white head cover and red forehead mark stirs a large black pot with a long ladle, lit by a bright lamp. Around her, several people in white clothes work at big steel pots, pans and buckets on the dirt ground, preparing food in bulk.2012-04-06A photo of an open-sided outdoor kitchen tent with a striped red, green, blue and orange canopy. Large stainless steel cooking pots and wide pans sit on the dirt floor, with sacks, cardboard boxes and plastic containers nearby. Several men in white vests and white dhotis work in the dim, lit-up tent; the foreground man stands beside a steel tub holding a ladle, while others tend pots near a long table of utensils. Hoses and rope guy lines are visible overhead.2012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06Night-time community kitchen under a striped awning in a cyclone relief camp, with large dark steel cooking pots and lids on the muddy ground under bright tube lights. Several women in blue, green and red saris wear head coverings and hairnets; one stirs a pot, others stand and serve. Orange and red patterned cloth hangs behind, and a few steel vessels and ladles lie on the pots.2012-01-06April 06 20122012-04-06January 06 20122012-01-06A large outdoor community kitchen under striped blue, green and white tarpaulin canopies at dusk. Many large aluminium cooking pots sit on metal stands and charcoal or gas burners, with steam rising from several of them. Several workers in white and red-trimmed clothing move between the pots, and fluorescent tube lights hang from the canopy poles. Stacked steel plates and metal vessels lie at the lower left. The scene looks like food preparation for mass annadhan, though no people are close enough to be clearly identified.2012-01-04January 07 20122012-01-07A photo of an open-sided tent kitchen at night, lit by tall fluorescent tube lights on poles. Several large metal cooking pots sit over wood fires burning on the ground, with smoke rising. A cluster of people in white clothes and white head caps work around the cooking area, and a few others sit on blue tarps and plastic bags, some wearing white and red-trimmed garments. The tent roof has a striped red, green and blue fabric edge.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06