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A large outdoor annadana meal served under a tent with maroon cloth walls and a strip of colourful bunting overhead. Women in red and yellow saris and red blouses walk along rows of seated diners, carrying steel plates and bowls of rice. Many seated people, including children in green and orange, eat from metal plates on the ground. A woman in a red sari with a red-and-white shawl stands at right serving rice onto a plate. No ashram leader is visible in this scene.

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October 12 20142014-10-12 +1 copiesA seated meal gathering on striped mats in an open hall, with devotees sitting in rows eating from banana leaves. Many women and girls wear orange-red saris and rudraksha malas, while a few older women wear white or maroon. Leaves hold pieces of fried snacks and white flatbread. A woman in a teal and gold sari stands at left, serving or walking between the rows. The crowd is dense in the background, and a small table with a steel vessel sits at upper right. No prominent ritual figure is clearly identifiable in this frame.2018-01-14A photograph of a large hall with a light tiled floor where many women, girls and children sit cross-legged on the ground eating a meal from metal plates, some holding small steel cups. Many are dressed in saris and salwar in blue, red, yellow, pink, green and purple, with braided hair and flowers in some. Others stand in the background with plates in hand, and an open doorway at right shows a red-walled entrance with flowers. The scene resembles a communal annadan meal in an ashram hall.2014-10-12 +1 copiesA photograph of an outdoor communal meal under a tented canopy at night, lit by a bright floodlight. Many people sit on the bare ground eating from metal plates of rice. Several men in white shirts and white dhotis stand and serve food, including a bare-chested man in a white dhoti in the centre. In the foreground a woman in a red sari with white flowers in her hair eats, and a woman in a teal sari with gold jewellery sits holding a plate. Colourful bunting hangs from the tent poles and a banner is visible at the right. No one is identifiable as a person from the image.2012-04-06A large outdoor tented meal, an annadan-style communal feast, with many people seated on red mats under a yellow and red draped canopy decorated with marigold garlands. A woman in a cream sari with a green border stands centre-left holding a steel plate, and seated men wear white dhotis and shirts. Other diners in green, orange and teal saris eat from steel plates while volunteers in white move between rows. A devotee in white sits centre-front with a rudraksha-style mala, holding a plate. No candidate for a person is clearly identifiable by appearance in this view.2006-12-30A large hall with a red carpet and white runner where many women sit in rows on the floor eating a communal meal served on fresh green banana leaves. In the foreground a woman in white garments and a white hair net leans forward to handle food on her leaf, beside water bottles. A woman in a purple saree and gold jewellery carries a steel bucket down the row, while other attendants in white dhotis or saris and white hair nets work at serving tables at the back. Many participants wear saris and salwar kameez in yellow, orange, pink and teal. A small girl in green sits at left. The scene reads as an annadan style community meal.2016-12-21A seated line of women in orange and saffron robes eats a communal meal from metal plates on a concrete floor under a tent with teal and maroon printed cloth walls. In the foreground, an older woman with light grey hair and a dark rudraksha-style mala holds food in her hand, while younger women in orange with gold borders sit beside her with plates of rice and food and small glass cups. A standing figure in orange robes stands at the left edge, and other people in orange are visible in the background of the tent.2013-02-15 +2 copiesSeptember 03 20072007-09-03 +1 copiesOctober 12 20142014-10-12 +1 copiesFebruary 15 20132013-02-15January 02 20162016-01-02Outdoor annadan meal under a colourful striped canopy with patterned red and maroon cloths draped along the side. Several people stand and sit at metal tables with red plastic chairs, eating from paper plates. Women in sarees, a boy in a white school uniform, and men in white shirts and dhotis are visible, with a man in a maroon shirt and orange dhoti serving food. Trees and open sand fill the background.2006-11-24 +2 copies