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A photograph of an outdoor food service under a striped canvas tent at the Kanchipuram ashram inauguration. Men and women queue and eat at long steel tables on red plastic chairs. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti sits at left eating from a leaf plate, while a man in a red shirt and orange cloth stands at a large steel pot serving food to a woman in a white sari. Another man in a white shirt ladles from a steel vessel at right. Crowds stand in the background under tent canopies.

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Outdoor annadan meal under a colourful striped canopy with patterned red and maroon cloths draped along the side. Several people stand and sit at metal tables with red plastic chairs, eating from paper plates. Women in sarees, a boy in a white school uniform, and men in white shirts and dhotis are visible, with a man in a maroon shirt and orange dhoti serving food. Trees and open sand fill the background.2006-11-24 +2 copiesA photograph of an outdoor annadan meal service under a large canopy of red patterned cloth edged with strips of colourful fabric in green, blue, purple and red. Several men in white dhotis and white shirts serve food from large steel pots at a metal table, one wearing a white hairnet and another with an orange-and-white cloth at his neck. Devotees in white and checked shirts stand holding metal plates and cups, and a seated young man in a plaid shirt eats from a steel plate. Trees and a low orange building are visible beyond the canopy. No one in the scene is identifiable as a person.2012-01-08Outdoor food-distribution area under a canopy of red and orange umbrellas with fringed edges, with a large crowd behind. In the foreground, men in white shirts and trousers stand at a long green table and serve from metal containers, one holding a plate of food. A man in a red patterned shirt holds a plate, and a man in a white T-shirt with a logo stands at the right. Women in saris and a crowd of devotees fill the background. Fallen marigold petals litter the table. This looks like an annadan style meal service at a large gathering.2009-01-01January 02 20122012-01-02January 02 20122012-01-02November 27 20122012-11-27A photo of a community food distribution under a white tent with red, green, yellow and orange bunting. In the foreground a man in a white shirt with white tilak and a rudraksha mala wears clear gloves and serves food from a large steel pot. Beside him an older man in white clothes with white tilak and a mala serves from a steel vessel, and another man in white ladles food onto plates. A man in white with a maroon cloth at his waist holds a steel plate, and a man in an olive-green shirt holds a plate of food at right. Several more people in white and in saris stand in the background, some with green head covers, lining the serving counter.2012-11-27A photograph of an outdoor food distribution under a striped canopy with red, green, blue and orange panels. Volunteers in white clothes and light green head coverings sit at folding tables and pack food into small wrapped packets, while others stand and walk among steel cooking pots and large containers on the dirt ground. A boy in an orange-red shirt stands at left watching, and a man in a white shirt and dhoti walks through the scene. Steel tables hold plastic jugs and a bag of rice, with a tent frame and parked vehicles in the background.2012-01-04January 01 20092009-01-01November 25 20062006-11-25A long queue of people waits under a red and green tent canopy with orange and green scalloped valances, serving food from steel vessels at folding tables covered with orange flower petals. Volunteers in white dhotis and a yellow shirt with an orange cloth serve food from a steel pot, while devotees in shirts and saris hold out leaf plates and bowls.2009-01-01November 24 20062006-11-24 +2 copies