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A long covered dining hall with orange walls and red pillars, where people sit at grey metal tables eating meals from steel plates. In the foreground, an elderly bare-chested sadhu with long white hair and a white beard wears a rudraksha mala and an orange cloth, eating rice from a plate on a blue plastic chair. Beside him a man in a striped shirt and glasses eats, and others eat along the row. A server in a pink-striped shirt carries a tray with food. Water bottles and steel tumblers sit on the tables, and the printed notice boards on the left are visible. Several people are visible eating meals.

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September 28 20122012-09-28 +1 copiesSeptember 15 20122012-09-15A long plain dining hall with a grey concrete wall and a metal roof with ceiling fans. Elderly men in orange and white clothes sit on blue plastic chairs at a long steel table, each with a metal plate of food. A man in a white dhoti and shirt walks along the aisle in the foreground, another man in white stands at left, and a man in a checked shirt looks on. Colourful fabric hangings with tassels hang from the ceiling, and a banner with a photo of a saffron-robed figure hangs in the back. A plastic water bottle sits on the table in front.2011-09-09A row of older men sits at long steel tables in a plain white-walled hall, eating meals from steel plates with metal cups and water bottles nearby. Several wear white dhotis and some have saffron or orange cloth draped over their shoulders or heads, including one with an orange turban. Barred windows line the walls and orange and patterned cloth hangings decorate the ceiling. No one is identified as a person and no such candidate is visible.2011-09-25A photograph of a long canteen-style dining hall with bare grey concrete walls and blue-legged chairs at a steel-topped table. Several men sit eating from steel plates, including a bearded man in saffron-orange robes with long grey hair and a bearded man in white dhoti and shirt. Other saffron-clad men and white-clad attendants stand or sit along the table, while a cameraman in the foreground films with a camcorder and a phone is held nearby. Orange and yellow cloth hangings decorate the wall.2011-09-09A photograph of a long communal meal line inside an orange-walled hall with a covered veranda. Men, women and children stand and sit in a queue; a seated man in a white shirt eats from a steel plate of yellow rice at a white table, while others along the table hold plates and blue plastic chairs are arranged in front. A woman in a dark green striped sari stands in the foreground and a girl in a red blouse and white skirt stands nearby. Posters with faded portraits hang on the orange wall. No identifiable a person is visible.2012-09-28 +1 copiesA photograph inside a thatched-roof pavilion with blue metal pillars, where a sadhu in orange robes with white tripundra marks on his forehead serves sweet offerings onto a banana leaf on a long metal table. Beside him a man in orange robes and a gold necklace holds a steel bucket, while a seated bare-chested man in a white dhoti with white forehead markings and a red bead bracelet waits to receive the food on a blue plastic chair. Other men in white dhotis and shirts stand along the table, and a crowd of onlookers gathers behind a low wall outdoors under trees. a person appearance-based candidate may be the orange-robed man serving the leaves, but the face and cues are not distinct enough to confirm, so identity is uncertain.2011-01-16An elderly bearded man in a white collared shirt sits at a light yellow table, eating rice from a stainless steel plate with his hand. Behind him, a shirtless man wearing a teal dhoti with an orange cloth over his shoulder stands beside a partially visible person in teal cloth. A plastic water bottle and a green soda bottle sit on the table, and a blue plastic chair is at left. Behind them a white banner carries Tamil script. No figure in the scene is clearly identified as a person.2012-09-28A row of men seated at a long steel dining counter eating a meal from stainless steel plates, with water bottles and steel tumblers on the counter. Several men wear orange and saffron cloths over their shoulders, and one man on the left has a red thread on his wrist and a tilak mark on his forehead. A man at the far right in an orange cloth stands behind the counter serving.2011-09-25 +1 copiesA photograph of an annadan food-serving line in a plain, unfinished hall with grey concrete walls and a corrugated metal roof. A bald man in a white dhoti and a purple sacred thread stands at the left, ladling food from a steel pot. Beside him an older man in white serves rice from a steel bowl. Behind them a man with a pink-and-white flower garland and a man in white with a rudraksha mala watch. On the right, an elderly bearded man with grey hair and white forehead marks, wearing an orange saffron cloth, holds a steel plate of rice and curry. A colourful woven hanging is on the right wall. Several people are visible in the background, including a woman in white. 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