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A covered outdoor cooking area under a corrugated metal roof supported by wooden beams and poles, with fluorescent tube lights and palm trees beyond. Several men in white caps or hair nets and dhotis, one in an orange-yellow dhoti, stir and serve food from large steel cooking pots set over stoves. Other men in shirts and trousers stand around the pots, and colourful striped cloth canopies extend to the right. Firewood lies at the lower left. Scene appears to be a food distribution, annadaan, at a relief camp.

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January 06 20122012-01-06A covered outdoor kitchen tent at a relief camp, with large steel cooking pots set on portable stoves and steam rising. Several men in white hairnets and white shirts stir the pots and serve food, one holding a ladle and another a steel bowl. Men in white shirts, a red shirt and a dark vest stand behind them watching, one wearing an orange dhoti and a white shawl. Bags of supplies, steel tumblers and lidded pots fill the foreground, with palm trees and striped tent canopies beyond. This is an annadaan food service scene.2012-01-06June 29 20142014-06-29 +1 copiesOpen-sided shed with a corrugated metal roof serves as a community kitchen for food distribution. A man in a white shirt and checked lungi with a red head cloth stirs a large pot with a long metal ladle over a wood fire. Several large aluminium cooking pots and steel vessels sit on the sandy ground and on stoves, with bags of rice and piled greens nearby. Other workers in white and plain clothing, some with head coverings, move around the stations. A green-leafed tree line and a hazy sky appear beyond the shed.2012-01-06Outdoor annadaan food-serving area under a long corrugated metal tarpaulin roof supported by poles, with palm trees beyond. A man in a grey-striped shirt and dark trousers, wearing a white hairnet, stirs a large pot on a metal stove. Men in white dhotis, one with a yellow-bordered cloth, stand and sit among steel pots and bowls, with plastic chairs and a blue tarpaulin on the ground. A few other workers wear white hairnets. Bundled firewood lies to the left.2012-01-06Outdoor food preparation under a corrugated roof on bare dirt ground at a relief camp. Large aluminium cooking pots and steel vessels sit on portable metal stoves and tripods, with a blue tarp holding white rice sacks and vegetables on the left. Several men in white caps and hairnets work among the pots; one in a white shirt and blue lungi stands at right, and others in orange or white cloths and mixed clothing move around the cooking area. Plastic chairs, a truck and parked vehicles appear in the background under palm trees.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor relief kitchen under a tarpaulin and bamboo-pole shelter, with large aluminium cooking pots set on metal stands over firewood and a red LPG gas cylinder at right. Several workers in green caps and white clothing tend the pots, and a few people in white dhotis and shirts stand among the crowd. Wet muddy ground and striped cloth canopies frame the scene. A man in white dhoti with bare upper body and a white-clad companion stand near the center, but no swami-like cues are clearly visible, so identity is uncertain. Several people are visible in the background.2012-01-06January 07 20122012-01-07A busy outdoor relief kitchen under a tarpaulin and striped canopy, where volunteers prepare food for an annadaan meal. Large metal cooking pots sit on simple iron stove stands over firewood, and men in white shirts, dhotis or aprons and white head caps stir and carry vessels. One man in an orange-red-trimmed white garment lifts a red cylinder. Stacked vegetables and metal containers sit on tables in the background, and a few other people in casual clothing move among the stalls. Bamboo poles hold up the awning. No one in the scene is identifiable as a person.2012-01-06January 07 20122012-01-07Outdoor cyclone relief kitchen under a striped fabric canopy and tarpaulin roof, with volunteers cooking annadaan meals in large steel pots on open stoves. Several workers wear white dhotis, white shirts and white hair-nets; a woman in a red-and-orange sari wears gloves and stands at a steel pot in the foreground. A man in a white shirt and dhoti stirs a pot, and a cameraman films beside the cooking area.2012-01-06