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A photograph inside a plain kitchen-like room with grey walls and stainless steel vessels on a concrete counter. A man with long dark hair and a rudraksha mala wears a rust-red garment and stands at left, looking toward a shaved-headed man in a white dhoti with gold border and a bare upper body, who wears a beaded necklace. At right, a woman in an orange sari with a white head covering and a rudraksha mala ladles food from a steel pot into a bowl. A woman in a yellow-gold sari stands behind, and other people are partly visible at the edges. No figure is confidently identifiable as a person from appearance alone.

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November 11 20172017-11-11September 20 20122012-09-20November 11 20172017-11-11November 11 20172017-11-11A photograph of a serving line in a yellow-walled hall. A long-haired man in saffron-orange dhoti and shawl, wearing a multi-strand gold bead necklace, smiles while serving rice from a steel pot with a ladle. Beside him a bald man in orange robes wears a rudraksha mala and a red forehead mark. On the left a woman in a green and orange sari with a long braid receives the food. Behind the counter several workers in white aprons and blue head caps stand at steel serving pans. Ceiling fans and a few other people in white and orange are visible. The long-haired man in saffron with gold beads and a shawl matches the swamiji appearance cues on the page, so this is a probable in-person candidate.2012-09-20A photograph of a food-serving event in a yellow-walled hall. A long-haired man in orange ochre robes and a heavy gold bead necklace reaches into a large steel pot of cooked rice, with a shaved-head monk in orange robes and a rudraksha mala beside him. Behind them a young man in an orange-and-white shawl watches. In the foreground devotees and volunteers in white, one wearing a blue hairnet, crowd around the serving pots and a steel tray of prasad. Swamiji (probable): the long-haired man in orange robes, gold bead necklace and bare shoulder, serving food, matches the page's claim that Swamiji was present.2012-09-20December 18 20162016-12-18 +1 copiesA photograph of a community food service in a yellow-walled dining hall. A long-haired man in an orange-red dhoti-style wrap with layered gold beaded necklaces is serving cooked rice from a large steel pot with a ladle, smiling. Behind the counter, women in white and cream saris and blue hair nets are handing out food and carrying a woven basket. On the left, a shaved-headed man in orange cloth and rudraksha beads watches. Several devotees in white and orange clothing hold steel plates. Stainless steel pots line the left wall. Visible people: about ten.2012-09-20 +2 copiesFebruary 06 20172017-02-06 +3 copiesNovember 11 20172017-11-11A communal annadan serving line in a bright indoor hall. A bald man in orange saffron robes with long rudraksha malas stands at left holding a steel plate of food. Beside him, two young men in white dhotis with saffron borders and rudraksha malas hold steel plates; the one in the centre has a sandalwood or kumkum mark on his forehead. Women in white saris and hairnets serve from copper and steel vessels on a long table, with brass arched railings and pink flowers in the foreground.2016-07-02A photo of a communal meal service in a bright pink hall. A man in a shaved-look hairnet... wait, correction: a man wearing a white hairnet and clear plastic gloves stands at a steel serving counter, scooping food from a metal tray. He wears an orange-brown saffron-toned wrap with a long orange-beaded rudraksha-style mala and a gold-trimmed cloth, and he smiles. Beside him a woman in an orange sari with a yellow border, dark beaded mala and bindi holds a phone. A woman on the right in an orange wrap and orange mala hands out a white takeaway box. Background people wear white clothes.2013-05-10 +1 copies