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A large outdoor tent filled with rows of seated sadhus in orange and saffron robes at a communal meal during a bhandara. Men in orange clothing and many with orange or yellow turbans sit cross-legged on the ground at long rows of white plates and steel glasses, while a man in a white shirt and orange dhoti bends to serve from a bucket. Orange and white striped canopy overhead, with more people standing and walking at the sides. Several sadhus at the right wear red and orange with rudraksha malas and long white beards.

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April 21 20162016-04-21April 23 20162016-04-23April 21 20162016-04-21April 23 20162016-04-23April 21 20162016-04-21April 21 20162016-04-21April 21 20162016-04-21A large open-air tent with orange and white striped canopy shows hundreds of saffron-robed sadhus and devotees seated in long rows on the bare ground, eating from metal and paper plates. A man in orange clothes with a waist cloth bends at right, serving food from a steel bucket onto plates. Many seated men wear orange or yellow turbans and have long white beards. Tent poles and standing devotees in orange fill the background.2016-05-07May 11 20162016-05-11April 21 20162016-04-21A large outdoor tent filled with rows of people seated on the ground eating a communal meal from steel plates, a scene of mass annadan (free food). Most seated people wear saffron-orange robes and some wear orange turbans or head wraps; a few men wear cream and white kurtas and a man in a purple shirt in the foreground eats from a thali of rice and curry. Orange tent poles and white canopy frame the hall, with water bottles and steel plates set along the floor. Hundreds of people are visible, and an orange-clad figure in the foreground with white beard sits near the centre-left. No printed names or event captions are readable apart from a copyright line on the image.2016-05-07April 21 20162016-04-21