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Overhead photo of a South Indian style vegetarian meal served on a green banana leaf on a speckled floor. Rice sits in the centre with yellow vegetable poriyal, fried vada (doughnut-shaped fritters), chickpea and vegetable sides, yogurt with cucumber in a white bowl, and small white bowls of sambar, rasam, a thick lentil or chutney-like dish, and grated coconut. A plastic water bottle sits at the right edge. At the bottom, the lap of an orange saffron garment is visible.

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A top-down photo of a South Indian meal served on a green banana leaf placed on a speckled stone floor. Plain white bowls hold a yellow lentil stew, a thin sambar-like broth, a creamy coconut-style chutney, a cucumber raita, and a small mound of grated coconut. Plain steamed white rice sits in the centre, with fried vadas, a spiced vegetable crumble, and crunchy chickpea-style snacks on the right. A small bottle of water sits at the top right. At the bottom edge, the orange-saffron robe of a seated person is partly visible, but no face is shown.2015-12-20December 20 20152015-12-20 +1 copiesDecember 20 20152015-12-20October 04 20132013-10-04 +1 copiesA photograph of a vegetarian meal served on a large green banana leaf placed on a white cloth. Rice is mounded on the right, with a flatbread, fried snacks, lentil and vegetable curries, sliced carrots and cucumber, a yellow sweet ball, yoghurt and small paper cups of chutneys and sauces arranged across the leaf. A clear water bottle stands at the top, and an orange cloth edge appears at the right. No people are visible.2016-07-12May 08 20172017-05-08Overhead photo of a South Indian style vegetarian meal served on a large green banana leaf laid over a white cloth. On the leaf are a mound of white steamed rice, a heap of fried potato-style vegetable pieces, a mound of tamarind or lemon rice with spices, a crisp golden medu vada with a hole in the centre, a whole red tomato, and a small dried red chilli. Four bowls and cups surround the leaf: two with thin yellow dal or sambar, one with a brown beverage in a paper cup and one with a chickpea curry, plus two water bottles at the corners. No people are visible in the frame.2015-12-20 +1 copiesMarch 30 20162016-03-30Top-down photograph of a meal served on a green banana leaf laid over a white cloth. On the leaf are a mound of white rice, a heap of fried vegetable or meat pieces, a mound of spiced yellow rice, a fried ring-shaped vada, a small red fruit, and dried chilli. Two white paper cups of tea or coffee sit at the top, two small white bowls hold yellow dal and a chickpea-style curry, and two water bottles frame the corners. No people or a person depicted.2015-12-20May 08 20172017-05-08November 20 20062006-11-20A photograph from above of a traditional South Indian vegetarian meal served on a large green banana leaf placed on a pale tiled floor. The leaf holds rice, a pappadam, a folded flatbread, a dal, a red chutney, vegetable curries, fried vadas, a pickle, a sweet preparation, a sweet porridge, and three small white cups holding sambar, curd and a thin broth. No people are visible. This is a food arrangement, not a ritual scene.2011-07-20