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A photograph of a kitchen at an outdoor relief camp, where volunteers prepare food for an annadaan meal. In the foreground a large black wok sits on a metal stove with frying food in oil. A man in a white dhoti with gold border and a black cord around his neck stands bare-chested, tending the pan. A woman in a green hair net and purple top bends over the cooking area, while a woman in a maroon patterned sari with a beaded necklace and bangles stirs a large aluminium pot. Steel vessels, plastic cans and bottles, and a colourful painted cloth sit around the stalls. A man in a striped shirt stands at left with an ID badge.

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Outdoor relief kitchen under a tarpaulin with a colourful painted banner behind it. A bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a yellow border and a green hairnet stirs a large black wok of frying food on a portable gas stove. Beside him a man in white shirt and dhoti works at the left, and a woman in a maroon printed sari with a green hairnet stands at right, hands on hips, beside a large steel pot. Steel vessels, bowls, plastic bottles and a red gas cylinder are on the counter and ground, with a corrugated sheet and scrap metal behind.2012-01-06A photograph of an open-sided outdoor kitchen under a corrugated metal roof and tarpaulin, used for mass food preparation. Large steel cooking vessels sit on open wood fires on bare ground. Several people in white shirts and dhotis, and women in saris, wear blue-green hair caps and work around the pots and metal trays of cooked rice and prepared food. Sacks, plastic packets and bowls lie on the ground. Palm trees and a boundary wall are visible behind, and a child stands at the right. Plain work clothing and the open ground suggest a relief-food setting.2012-01-04A photograph of an outdoor food-distribution scene under a blue-and-white striped canopy. A woman in a yellow-green floral saree and a green hairnet ladles cooked rice from a large dark pot into a steel bowl. Beside her, a woman in a purple top and white hairnet stands at a steel cooking vessel with a lid, and a man in a plaid shirt stands in the foreground near a large black pot of rice. Several other workers in green and white head coverings and aprons work in the background among tables and chairs, with a tent and vehicle visible behind them.2012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04Outdoor relief kitchen under striped canopy tents at a cyclone relief camp in Kuttiyankuppam village, Pondicherry. A woman in a magenta sari with a blue blouse and hairnet stirs food in a steel pot over a large cooking vessel. Other women in orange and white saris work at pots, vessels and tables; a woman in an orange sari carries a green bucket. Large steel pots of cooking food and rice sit on the sandy ground beneath palm trees, as annadaan food service is prepared.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor community kitchen under a corrugated metal roof with a palm grove behind. Several volunteers in white caps, aprons and white or patterned clothes stir and ladle food from large aluminium pots set over open wood fires with blackened ash. A woman in a yellow and orange sari stands at the centre, and a large steel drum in the foreground holds water. Coconut palms and a tarpaulin shelter are visible in the background.2012-01-04A communal kitchen serving line in a tent with a colourful bunting strip overhead. Three women in white or saffron-trimmed clothes and disposable hair nets stand behind steel pots. The woman at left in a white sari with a dark rudraksha-style mala stirs a pan of yellow food. The central woman in a maroon blouse and yellow-and-red sari, wearing a blue volunteer lanyard badge, presses flatbread in a pot. At right, a smiling man in a white dhoti and shawl, with a mala and a blue lanyard, ladles a creamy liquid into a cup. A cameraman in green stands in the background, and seated diners are visible at right. Steel pots of curry and bowls of food fill the foreground.2012-10-13Outdoor relief kitchen on bare earth with many large steel cooking pots and lids set on the ground, some pots open and steaming, plastic chairs and assorted containers around. Five men work together at the largest black pot in the foreground: several wear light-green hairnets and grey or beige shirts, one in a white shirt with an ID badge, while one bare-chested man in a white dhoti with an orange-bordered shawl stands at right with his hands on his hips, watching. Scattered food supplies and bags fill the background.2012-01-07