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Photo of a storeroom-kitchen for an ashram annadan, with volunteers preparing food on the floor. Four people sit or crouch on a blue tarpaulin among heaps of fresh tomatoes, potatoes and green leafy vegetables being sorted and chopped. A woman in a white top with a rudraksha-style necklace and a woman in a green sari work at the centre; a person in a blue shirt sits at left, and another in a pink sari with a hairnet cuts greens at front. Stacked sacks of grain and rice fill the background, with steel pots and blue plastic drums at right.

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January 20 20192019-01-20January 04 20122012-01-04A group of women and men sit cross-legged on the floor of a plain, sunlit kitchen cutting vegetables for a community meal. Hairnets cover their heads. Several wear white or cream clothing, while one woman in a pink saree with a green blouse sits at left. Heaps of carrots, green beans, pumpkins, gourds, cucumbers, potatoes and leafy greens lie on a burlap sack. A large steel cooking pot sits at the left edge, and a rose-coloured wall stands behind them. This is an annadan-style food preparation scene, but no a person is visible.2019-01-20April 06 20122012-04-06January 20 20192019-01-20Several women sit on the ground in a covered outdoor area sorting produce. A large heap of ripe red tomatoes fills a concrete basin behind them. Left, a woman in a green saree and white hairnet strips green leaves from stems. Centre, a woman in a pink saree with a name badge picks through the leaves. Foreground, an older woman in a white saree with a green border and a hairnet works beside a steel bowl. Far right, another woman in a white top and hairnet sorts chopped vegetables on a steel plate. Blue tarpaulin and a steel basin are visible.2012-01-04November 27 20122012-11-27Four women sit on the floor of a storage room preparing garlands and leaves for ritual use. The woman on the left wears white with a gold border and a white hairnet, threading green leaves and a long garland. Beside her a woman in white with an orange-and-blue shawl sits among yellow cloth and green leaves. A woman in white with glasses and a hairnet on the right sorts leaves. In the foreground a young woman with long hair, white clothes and a flower in her hair works at a steel bowl of cut material. Purple bins, a burlap sack, metal pots and shelves stand behind them, with heaps of greenery and red flowers on the cloth.2012-04-06January 04 20122012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06A covered outdoor relief kitchen under a dark tarpaulin roof on a flat, sandy site with palm trees beyond. Women in green and red saris and blue hair nets sit and work among heaps of produce: green okra-like pods, pale green gourds, red tomatoes and piles of fresh ginger on blue tarps. Large white sacks of rice or grain are stacked in the foreground, and steel cooking pots and tables are set up along the back. Several people are visible in the background, working around the stalls. No one is identifiable as a particular figure, and this is an everyday relief-camp scene rather than a ritual.2012-01-06January 20 20192019-01-20