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A photograph of a feast service in a plain room with peach-coloured walls. In the foreground a woman with long dark braided hair and an orange-brown turban, wearing an orange robe and brown shawl, leans over a wooden low table serving rice and food onto a metal plate. Beside her, a bald man in orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits and gestures with his hand. Behind them, a man in a yellow and red turban and orange clothing bends toward the table, and a younger man in orange with a green waistband reaches toward a stainless bucket.

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May 05 20162016-05-05Photograph inside an orange-draped tent where saffron-clad sadhus and devotees sit on low wooden tables eating from metal thalis of food. In the foreground right, a sadhu in an orange-brown turban and a brown beaded necklace eats with his hands. Beside him, a man in yellow robes and a wristwatch eats, and a woman in orange sari-style cloth sits at a table. On the left, a bearded man in yellow kurta and pale wrap stands barefoot holding a rolled white paper, watching the meal. Plastic water bottles and steel tumblers sit on the tables, and more saffron-clothed people line the background.2016-05-04September 11 20152015-09-11 +1 copiesEvening scene under a white tent at a Kumbh Mela camp of Samishti Nirvani Akhada. Seated sadhus and devotees in saffron and orange robes sit at low wooden tables with steel plates of food, water bottles and tumblers. A bearded sadhu with long matted hair and orange robe stands at centre with bare feet, holding a red pouch. On the left a woman in a maroon headwrap wears gold necklaces and bangles, and a bearded man in orange sits by the table. A bald sadhu in orange sits centre-right, and a young monk in yellow-orange wraps stands at the right. Behind a corrugated metal fence, several onlookers in casual Indian clothing watch.2016-05-11May 05 20162016-05-05Five people sit cross-legged in a tiled room with pale marble-patterned walls, seated for a meal served on low wooden tables with steel thalis holding rotis, bowls of food, a banana and steel tumblers. On the left, a man wears an orange turban, orange robes and a long rudraksha mala. Next to him, a woman in orange with an orange head covering sits with hands folded. A bearded man in orange robes and a dark beard sits in the centre. To the right, a man wears a maroon turban, orange cloth and a heavy beaded necklace. At far right, an elderly white-bearded man in orange robes sits eating from a thali. Bottled water and a steel pot sit nearby. Among the people visible, one wears an orange robe and no visible presentation cues for a person candidate.2015-09-10May 05 20162016-05-05A seated row of sadhus in saffron and orange robes eats a communal meal from leaf plates on a red floor covering inside a large tent. The foreground figure in an orange turban and orange vest, with a red sash and rudraksha-style beads, tears a flatbread. Beside him, bearded men in orange and pink turbans sit cross-legged, with small clay bowls, cups and an orange fruit on the leaves. Lamps glow at the top edge, and a standing figure in white stands in the background. The scene reads as a bandara feast at a Kumbh camp.2015-09-10 +2 copiesMay 05 20162016-05-05Evening scene in a tented camp at a religious gathering. On the right, a tall sadhu with matted hair piled on his head, a long beard, yellow tilak on his forehead and rudraksha mala, wears orange robes and stands barefoot holding a small red cloth and phone, speaking with a shaven-headed monk in saffron-yellow robes who holds a phone. Seated at low wooden tables along a corrugated metal barrier are several monks in orange and saffron robes, one in a maroon turban with gold necklaces and bangles, and one in a bare-headed orange wrap. Steel thalis of food, water bottles and tumblers sit on the tables. Behind, standing spectators in casual clothes and saris watch from beyond the barrier, with orange-robed figures further back in the tent.2016-05-11September 15 20152015-09-15 +3 copiesMay 05 20162016-05-05