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A photograph of villagers queuing in a dusty lane in Kuttiyankuppam village, holding out steel bowls and plates while a man in a white shirt and dark trousers serves food from a white van parked beside a concrete wall. Storm-damaged trees with bare branches and tall palms surround the scene, and a utility pole stands at right. Several women wear saris and carry bowls, and children stand among the crowd. The wall behind has faded painted writing reading LOVE FRIENDS.

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January 07 20122012-01-07Photograph of a cyclone-hit village street on the coast, with damaged thatched and concrete houses and tall coconut palms with broken fronds. A small yellow pickup truck is parked with its rear loaded, and villagers crowd around it. A woman in a blue-and-grey sari carries a steel bowl and walks toward the truck, while women in orange, red and blue saris and a woman in white with a head covering stand nearby. Children and men in striped shirts and lungis gather around, some holding containers. Debris, fallen branches and a drainage channel with litter lie in the foreground, and the sea is visible at the left edge.2012-01-06January 07 20122012-01-07 +1 copiesJanuary 07 20122012-01-07January 06 20122012-01-06January 05 20122012-01-05Photo of a cyclone-damaged village street in Kuttiyankuppam, Pondicherry, with unfinished brick houses, fallen branches and debris along the roadside. Many villagers, mostly women in colourful saris and children, gather around a truck loaded with steel pots, as a man in white and a man in a red shirt stand on the truck handing out food containers. A woman in front carries a large metal vessel. Utility poles and a blue sky are visible.2012-01-06January 07 20122012-01-07January 05 20122012-01-05January 06 20122012-01-06 +1 copiesOutdoor relief distribution in a dirt village lane after a cyclone. Volunteers in light blue and green head caps stand at a green-railed cart or vehicle ladling a yellow rice dish from a large steel pot into small steel bowls held out by villagers. A woman in a white head covering and white top and a man in a white shirt and checked lungi stand nearby. Children in colourful shirts and shorts crowd the road, and women in saris watch from behind. Dry brush and cut branches line the lane, with thatched huts and a goat visible in the background.2012-01-06A six-panel collage of food distribution scenes. Panels show crowds of villagers queuing and pressing forward, a close view of hands receiving rice from a bowl onto blue-rimmed paper plates, a man with white hair and beard serving food from a vehicle, and women in colourful saris carrying steel bowls and plates of rice. A blue truck and a van with a painted poster of a saffron-clad figure stand among palm trees and simple houses, with a crowd of women in sarees and children gathered around. Pictured people appear only inside the panels; the collage itself has no separate physical people count.2012-01-01 +1 copies