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Close-up photograph of food offerings arranged on a red velvet cloth. In the foreground, a steel bowl holds a stack of round, spiral-shaped savoury snacks with sesame seeds. Behind it, a bowl of dark grey-black round balls sits beside a bowl of orange-coloured crisp chickpeas and bowls of fried snacks at the edges. No people are visible. The setting suggests naivedyam, food arranged as a temple offering.

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Overhead photo of a red velvet cloth covered with small metal bowls of fried and sweet snacks offered as naivedyam. Bowls hold crisp golden murukku-style spirals, small fried gram-flour pieces, round flat savoury discs, sweet round balls studded with raisins or nuts, a bowl of flaked toasted grains, a bowl of rolled ring-shaped snacks, and a bowl of orange fried vermicelli-like strands. Puffed rice sits on a brass plate at the top left. No people are visible.2023-01-03Overhead photo of sweets and snacks arranged on a deep red velvet cloth. Brass bowls with perforated rims hold round laddus in yellow, cream, grey and brown tones, and a heap of pale spiral snack. Blue ceramic bowls contain more laddus in brown, grey, cream and golden shades, and a blue bowl holds puffed rice-type balls. No people or deity visible; the arrangement looks like food offerings laid out for a ritual.Overhead view of a naivedyam spread of many small round steel bowls arranged on a deep red velvet cloth. The bowls hold savouries and sweets including fried snacks, twisted and spiral snacks, fried dough pieces, roasted peanuts, cashews, green peas, puffed rice sweets, brown and yellow balls, grapes and papery crisps, with a banana leaf at the left edge. No people are visible in the frame.2022-12-19Overhead photo of food offerings on a red velvet cloth. A central grey metal bowl holds a heap of crisp, curled, ridged savoury snacks. Adjacent bowls hold other snacks, a sweet with dried fruit pieces, and a mixed grain or flake offering with white and brown bits. No people, deities or a person visible.2023-01-03Close overhead photo of several shallow metal bowls filled with sweets and snacks arranged on a deep red velvet cloth. The central bowl holds cubes of pale golden fudge-like sweet, with dark gulab jamun balls in a bowl at the top, twisted orange jalebi-style spirals at top left, sesame-coated brittle pieces at top right, and fried savoury snacks at lower left. No people are visible; the food appears to be offered as prasadam, with the scene.2022-12-19Photograph of a large steel platter heaped with round, pale golden-beige balls made of puffed grain or lentil dough. A second bowl at right holds crisp, curled fried strands in orange-brown tones, and smaller steel plates with fried chips and condiments sit around the edges on a dark red cloth. No people are visible.2022-01-03December 19 2022 sripuram2022-12-19December 19 2022 sripuram2022-12-19Overhead photograph of two perforated brass bowls on a red and gold brocade cloth. The left bowl holds a heap of orange twisted savoury snacks resembling murukku. The right bowl holds many round, pale pinkish-beige sweet balls studded with white and pale nuts or seeds, possibly laddus, with a few darker pieces visible at the bottom edge. No people, deity forms or ritual activity are visible.Overhead photo of a spread of savoury snacks arranged on a purple checked cloth. Small metal and leaf bowls hold murukku spirals, chakli-style coils, thin fried chips, namkeen mixes, crisp wafers, fried plantain and potato slices, and round brown fried balls. Some items sit on folded paper plates. A gold-bordered striped cloth runs along the top edge. No people are visible; the food appears to be prepared as an offering or annadan-style spread.2022-07-13A close photo of a round metal plate heaped with golden-brown spiral savoury snacks. Behind it are a gold-patterned silk cloth, a brass or silver vessel and a blue-tinged decorative flower arrangement. Small sweets sit in a bowl at the lower edge. No people are visible.2024-01-22Close photo of offerings laid out on a red velvet cloth. In the centre a round stainless steel bowl holds a heap of sesame-coated sweet bars, golden-brown and crusted with white sesame seeds. Around it stand more steel bowls: at upper left, dark brown fried balls; at upper right, pale round sweets; at lower left, a yellow-brown crumbly sweet. No people are visible, and the food appears to be prasadam-style sweets set out as an offering.2022-12-19