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Outdoor community cooking station for cyclone relief, set in hazy early light amid uprooted palms and debris. Several men and women cook over open wood fires in large dark metal pots and pans. A man in a white shirt and checked lungi stirs a pot, while others in headcloths and green or pink head covers tend fires and vessels. A steel lota with red marking sits in front. Scattered aluminium containers and wooden poles surround the makeshift kitchen.

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A photograph of a relief kitchen with large steel cooking vessels releasing thick steam. In the foreground, a man in a white shirt and checked lungi, wearing a light green hairnet, stirs a huge pot with a long red-handled ladle. Several other workers in white shirts and green head coverings stand in the background among pots and buckets, with trees visible behind a tarpaulin-covered shelter.2012-01-07Outdoor community kitchen under a open tarp shelter, where a man in a white shirt, green head covering and maroon lungi stirs a large steel cooking pot set over a wood fire on a metal stand. Several other steel pots and vessels sit on the sandy ground around him, and another worker in a green cap and white shirt stands nearby beside another pot. Palm trees and a white building are visible in the background, with bright fluorescent lights hung from the shelter poles. A rope runs diagonally across the lower right of the frame.2012-01-04A 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.2012-01-06Outdoor relief kitchen under a tarpaulin-roofed shelter with dirt floor. Several large aluminium cooking pots sit on open wood fires, with smoke rising. Volunteers in white shirts and green hair-nets tend the pots, and a woman in an orange sari carries a metal bowl. Stainless steel vessels and buckets line a counter on the right, with palm trees and a white wall behind. Scene from an annadaan food service at a medical camp in a village.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04January 07 20122012-01-07January 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 04 20122012-01-04January 07 20122012-01-07January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor relief kitchen under a blue-and-white tarpaulin canopy with large steaming aluminium cooking pots set on portable stoves. Men in white vests and checked lungis stir the food with long wooden paddles, wearing green head caps. A man bends over a pot in the centre. Onlookers in light shirts, sarongs and a woman in a blue sari stand around. Steel vessels and a small tray of sweets sit on a table nearby, with a gas cylinder at lower left. This shows food preparation for annadan distribution.2012-01-03