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Night-time photo of a food distribution (annadan) under a tent with orange and green fringed decorations. A smiling woman in a yellow and white sari sits at a wooden table holding a steel plate, beside cloth tote bags. A man in white shirt and trousers with a rudraksha mala and a visitor badge stands smiling, holding a steel plate. Behind them, a crowd in white and colourful saris and salwar holds steel plates and bowls. A plastic water bottle sits on the table.

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A photograph of a food-serving line at an outdoor evening event under a red and white striped tent with bunting. A young sannyasi in an orange-red robe and orange shawl stands at left, smiling, with a steel vessel in front of him. A man in white shirt and white dhoti with glasses and a yellow lanyard holds a serving plate, and a smiling woman in a white sari with a dark beaded necklace holds a plate of rice. Other men in white clothing and a woman in a sari with glasses stand around the counter. A printed portrait banner hangs in the background. No candidate for the named teacher is clearly identifiable by appearance.2009-02-28Evening outdoor gathering at a lit venue where a seated man in a saffron-orange dhoti and shawl with a gold necklace, a rudraksha mala, gold armbands and a vibhuti-marked forehead smiles at a long white-clothed table of plates and water bottles. Beside him, a tall man in white with long dark hair and rudraksha malas stands, and the crowd around includes women in saffron, orange and white saris and children.2015-12-25Night photograph of a crowd gathered outdoors around a white-draped table with paper plates, bottled water and food scraps. At the centre, a man with long dark swept-back hair, a dark forehead mark, a red-and-gold wrap and a gold beaded necklace sits at the table, smiling. Seated beside him, a woman in an orange sari and a young woman in a red top sit close to the table, and children in white and red clothes press in around it. Behind them, many people in white kurtas and red lanyards stand under lit lamps near a building. Visible cues fit a person seated at the centre of a shared meal with devotees and children, though the appearance is not fully certain.2015-12-25November 06 20112011-11-06A night-time communal meal served under a canopy with gold and red drapery and hanging decorations. A man in white clothes and a white head wrap stands at a wooden table ladling food from a large steel pot. Women are seated and standing in the line, holding steel plates of rice and curry; the woman in the centre wears a white sari with a floral print and the woman at right wears a red floral blouse and a gold chain. Other devotees in white, green and orange clothes queue behind, and steel vessels sit on the ground. Nobody here is identified as a person, and the scene shows food distribution, a common ashram service.2006-12-23February 28 20092009-02-28December 27 20062006-12-27A photograph of a communal meal line under a decorated tent with red, yellow and orange draped cloth and floral garlands overhead. A young woman in a pink and orange salwar kameez with a long braid serves food from a steel pot onto a plate. Behind her, women in blue, white and green saris serve rice and curry from steel vessels on a wooden table. In the foreground an older bald man in a white shirt and white dhoti holds a steel plate of food and wears a rudraksha mala and a red tilak on his forehead; he has an ID badge on his chest. A teenage boy in a red striped shirt stands beside him. Other people queue along the table, and a few people in white clothes stand in the background.2006-12-30A photograph of a serving line during a communal meal under a dark tent or pandal with orange and marigold decorations hanging from the ceiling. A woman in front wears a white sari with a gold border, a red bindi and a rudraksha mala, and smiles toward the camera. Beside her, a woman in a yellow-orange shawl serves rice and curry from a metal plate. Behind them, a man in a white shirt with a rudraksha mala serves food, and a man in white with a white shawl and glasses stands at the table. Other men in white and a man in a dark purple shirt wait in line. On the right, a woman in a blue sari receives a plate. Stacks of steel plates and a water bottle sit on the wooden table.2006-12-23Night-time group photo at an outdoor dining event with a long white-draped table strewn with paper plates, water bottles and food. At the centre sits a smiling person with a white vertical tilak on the forehead, ornate gold necklaces, gold armbands and an orange-red robe, seated among guests. Around them stand and sit many people: a young woman in orange sari and orange-red lanyard on the left, a woman in a red top on the right, a shirtless man with long beaded malas and white cloth on the upper left, and a man in a blue t-shirt with an orange lanyard on the far right. Warm string lights and a pink-roofed structure glow in the background.2015-12-25 +1 copiesDecember 25 20152015-12-25 +1 copiesOutdoor evening gathering of devotees seated on the ground. A man in a white kurta holds a steel tray of yellow sweets, while a woman in a red sari with a gold necklace and bangles offers sweets to the seated crowd. Beside them a woman in a cream sari with a black beaded mala smiles, and a woman in a yellow shawl eats a sweet. Steel containers and water jugs are on a table behind, with trees in the background. Visible people are roughly 15 to 20 in the frame.2010-12-16