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A photograph of devotees cooking in a large kitchen for communal food service. Several women in orange and rust-coloured saris, with rudraksha malas and white hairnets, stand around a huge steaming stainless steel pot, stirring with long ladles. A woman in a dark red sari holds a tray of chopped green vegetables. On the right, a bare-chested man in orange dhoti and cloth wrap, wearing a white hairnet and rudraksha mala, stirs the pot with a ladle. Stainless steel cookware and a stove line the left edge. The scene is one of food preparation at an ashram kitchen.

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A kitchen scene in a large steel-tiled cooking area where a man in reddish-brown silk dhoti and shawl with gold border and a long beaded rudraksha-style mala stirs a large steaming aluminium cooking vessel with a long metal ladle. Beside him, several women wearing maroon saris with gold borders, hair nets and dark beaded malas stand around the pots, smiling. On the right, a shaven-headed man in orange-saffron cloth with a white head covering pours cooked yellow food from a steel pot into the cauldron. Other cooking vessels and a stove are visible at left. The setting suggests communal food preparation, annadan style.2013-11-15A photograph of a kitchen scene where several people in saffron and maroon robes with gold borders prepare food in a large steaming aluminium pot. A man in the centre wears a maroon garment, rudraksha mala and a gold-coloured necklace, and stirs the pot with a long ladle. To the left, a man in saffron holds a large ladle and wears a rudraksha mala and a white forehead marking. Women in maroon saris with gold borders, rudraksha malas and white head coverings stand around the pot, one holding a steel bowl. Annadan-style community cooking is suggested by the activity, though no printed text confirms the occasion.2013-11-15November 15 20132013-11-15November 15 20132013-11-15A kitchen scene where a bare-chested man with long swept-back hair, wearing a saffron-orange wrap and a long gold-and-rudraksha necklace, stirs a large steaming aluminium cooking pot with a long metal ladle. Around him stand about eight women and a few men in rust-orange saris and dhotis with rudraksha malas, white hairnets on their heads. Some smile and watch the pot. Steel pots, a stove area and shelves are visible in the background, and a small printed chart hangs on the wall.2013-11-15November 15 20132013-11-15November 15 20132013-11-15November 15 20132013-11-15November 15 20132013-11-15November 15 20132013-11-15A photograph of a community kitchen where a group of people in saffron and rust-coloured robes and rudraksha malas prepare food in a large steel pot. A bare-chested man in a copper-brown dhoti with a gold-toned shawl stirs the pot with a long steel ladle while a woman in a rust sari with gold border and white hair net watches beside him. Other devotees in white head caps and ochre clothing stand around the stove, one holding a ladle and another a steel tray, with a phone held up by a person at the right edge.2013-11-15A steamy kitchen scene in a plain concrete hall where a man in a rust-orange dhoti with gold-bordered wrap stirs a large aluminium pot with a long steel ladle. Around him, several women and men wear rust-red and orange robes, rudraksha malas, and white hairnets, while pots and steel cookware fill the foreground. One man on the left has a white forehead mark and bare upper body with malas. Steam rises from the pot as the group appears to be preparing food together.2013-11-15