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A photograph of a large open-sided tent kitchen used for mass food preparation. Several large stainless steel cooking vessels sit on stoves, with steam rising from a pot at left and a wide pot at lower right holding a yellow liquid. Fluorescent tube lights hang from poles beneath a colourful striped and patterned canopy. Several cooks wear white caps and aprons, including a woman in a purple sari with a pink head covering and a woman in a green top with a white cap. Sacks of grain are stacked in the background. This matches an annadan food service setting.

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January 06 20122012-01-06A large outdoor cooking tent with striped purple, green, pink and white canvas covers steam rising over huge stainless steel cooking pots. Several women and men in white hairnets and aprons stir and serve food from the pots, one woman in a red blouse ladling rice from a bowl. Other workers move between tables and stoves in the hazy background under the tent, with plastic bags and vessels scattered on the ground. The scene looks like community food preparation for cyclone relief.2012-01-07A 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.2012-01-04Night-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 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.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06April 06 20122012-04-06A photograph inside a large tent with a patterned red, pink and green canopy, used as a kitchen for a relief meal. Volunteers in white aprons and green or white head caps work at long tables and stand near large steel cooking pots and vats in the foreground. Fluorescent tube lights hang from the tent poles. A man in a blue shirt sits at a table preparing vegetables, while women in saris sit at the right with bowls and pots. A figure in white stands near the centre. The scene looks like a community food service.2012-01-06Outdoor relief kitchen under a striped purple, green and white tarpaulin canopy supported by wooden poles and rope. Large aluminium cooking pots of rice and vegetable preparations sit on portable gas burners and open fires on bare ground. Several people in casual clothing, some in sarees and one in a red shirt, stir, serve and tend the pots while others stand nearby. Plastic buckets, steel plates and a propane cylinder are scattered in the foreground, with trees and a blurred crowd behind.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06January 07 20122012-01-07Night-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.2012-01-06