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Outdoor relief kitchen under a colourful striped tent with palm trees behind. A man in a purple polo shirt and dark trousers carries a large white sack of grain on his shoulder in the foreground. Behind him a man in a white lungi stacks sacks on a blue wooden platform. Several women in saris, with some wearing head coverings, work at steel vessels, and a woman in an orange sari carries a steel pot. Large steel pots of cooked food and a steel bowl of green leaves sit on a blue tarpaulin. Sunlight streams through the trees, and cars are parked in the background.

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Outdoor relief kitchen under striped canopy tents at a cyclone relief camp in Kuttiyankuppam village, Pondicherry. A woman in a magenta sari with a blue blouse and hairnet stirs food in a steel pot over a large cooking vessel. Other women in orange and white saris work at pots, vessels and tables; a woman in an orange sari carries a green bucket. Large steel pots of cooking food and rice sit on the sandy ground beneath palm trees, as annadaan food service is prepared.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04A photograph of an outdoor food distribution under a striped canopy with red, green, blue and orange panels. Volunteers in white clothes and light green head coverings sit at folding tables and pack food into small wrapped packets, while others stand and walk among steel cooking pots and large containers on the dirt ground. A boy in an orange-red shirt stands at left watching, and a man in a white shirt and dhoti walks through the scene. Steel tables hold plastic jugs and a bag of rice, with a tent frame and parked vehicles in the background.2012-01-04Outdoor photo of a relief-camp kitchen area under a striped canopy with palm trees behind a white building. Men in white shirts and white dhotis shovel and pour sand from a basket onto a sandy patch in the foreground. A woman in a teal top and purple skirt stands near large steel cooking vessels and pots, and a red-and-cream cloth is draped over a table. The ground is muddy with puddles.2012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04A photograph of an open-sided outdoor kitchen under a corrugated metal roof and tarpaulin, used for mass food preparation. Large steel cooking vessels sit on open wood fires on bare ground. Several people in white shirts and dhotis, and women in saris, wear blue-green hair caps and work around the pots and metal trays of cooked rice and prepared food. Sacks, plastic packets and bowls lie on the ground. Palm trees and a boundary wall are visible behind, and a child stands at the right. Plain work clothing and the open ground suggest a relief-food setting.2012-01-04January 03 20122012-01-03January 04 20122012-01-04January 02 20122012-01-02January 04 20122012-01-04A relief kitchen at an outdoor cyclone-relief camp in a village, with palm trees and a white building behind. Large aluminium pots hold cooked rice with vegetables in the foreground. Volunteers in white shirts and white hairnets serve food: a man in white with a rudraksha-style necklace stands at right beside a woman in a patterned sari, and men in white shirts stand at left reaching toward the food. Another woman in a purple sari walks in the background. A striped awning shades the scene, and sacks and bags are stacked on a ledge at right.2012-01-06