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A canopy-covered annadan meal under a patterned tent with blue-and-white draped cloth. Seated men in white and light shirts eat from leaf plates on a long blue-topped table with a metal pot in the foreground. A young woman in a white dhoti-style sari with an orange shawl serves food from a steel vessel. A framed portrait with a marigold garland sits on a table at left, and several other people are seated or standing in the background.

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October 14 20072007-10-14October 28 20072007-10-28September 02 20072007-09-02A festive open-sided tent decorated with pleated red, white and green cloth drapes and red garland swags serves a communal meal. Women in white saris with orange shawls, one in the foreground with a gold-banded arm, serve food from metal buckets onto long blue-covered tables. Seated devotees on red plastic chairs eat from round leaf plates holding rice and a dish with a dollop of white, while men in striped and collared shirts wait along the benches.2007-10-14A photograph of a long communal meal under a decorated tent with patterned canopy and colourful striped and floral hangings. Several rows of seated men eat from leaf plates on blue-topped tables, with rice and yellow fruit or sweets served. A standing man in a white dhoti and orange-red shawl carries a metal pot and serves food along the row. Other people sit at tables on the right, and red plastic stools are visible. Hanging banners and a small framed picture sit at the tent edge.2007-09-30 +1 copiesSeptember 02 20072007-09-02September 03 20072007-09-03 +1 copiesA photograph of a open-sided tent with blue-and-white striped drapery and colourful bunting overhead, where people sit at blue plastic-topped tables on red plastic chairs eating a meal served on leaf plates with rice and white mounds of food. Several young men in white shirts and white trousers stand among the tables serving food from steel pots. Seated diners include an older man in a white dhoti and shirt, a boy in a red shirt, a man in a light striped shirt, and children in red, grey and maroon clothing, with women in colourful saris along the back. The setting is a bare dirt ground under the tent.2007-09-02A photograph of an outdoor annadan meal under a large decorated tent with red, orange and purple patterned canopy and striped draping. Rows of blue-topped tables and red plastic chairs seat many villagers, mostly women in colourful saris and headscarves and men in shirts and dhotis, eating from plates on banana leaves. A woman in a white sari with an orange-bordered shawl stands at the right serving food, and another attendant in white stands near the centre-left. No a person candidate is clearly visible in this scene.2007-10-28August 26 20072007-08-26 +2 copiesSeptember 03 20072007-09-03 +1 copiesA communal annadan meal under a tent with red and patterned hanging cloths. Long wooden tables with blue and red plastic chairs seat many people eating from large green leaf plates heaped with rice and white dollops, possibly ghee or curd. A man in a white dhoti and shirt stands at left, serving from a steel pot. Several children and women in saris sit at the tables, and a framed portrait of a bearded man in saffron hangs at upper right. Dusty ground and palm trees surround the tent.2007-09-23