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Outdoor relief kitchen in a cyclone-damaged village, with broken trees and palm trunks around a dirt yard. A blue-and-orange cart stands at left beside a sack and steel vessels. Several men in white shirts and trousers, several wearing green hairnets or caps, handle large pots and steel plates at a cooking station under a tarp frame. Strewn branches and a truck are visible behind.

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January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor relief work in a rural village under coconut palms. A blue-painted open truck bed with slatted sides sits in the centre, with a few white containers and bowls inside. Volunteers wearing green and white head caps stand around it, including a woman in a teal saree with a green blouse and men in white shirts and lungis. Large stainless steel cooking vessels and lids are stacked on a cart at right, and another truck with a banner stands behind. A cyclone-damaged tree line and bright sky appear overhead.2012-01-06Outdoor relief-camp scene under palm trees at a cyclone-hit village. Several men wear white dhotis and white shirts, some with light blue hairnets or caps, and handle large metal cooking pots and aluminium containers near a blue and green truck loaded with crates. A man in a bright orange dhoti and shawl, with a sacred thread and an ID lanyard, stands at right beside a chair and table. Two men in khaki uniforms stand by the truck, and a man in a green checked shirt stands at centre. Behind them are more trucks, a tarpaulin shelter and damaged trees.2012-01-06A photograph of a relief kitchen under a corrugated metal roof, with large black cooking pots and steel vessels on the ground and gas cylinders nearby. In the foreground, a man in a checked lungi and white shirt stands on the bed of a green-and-yellow truck, while several men with white head caps and white coats, plus a man in a green striped shirt and a man in a brown shirt, face the truck. Storm-damaged palm and bare trees stand behind the shelter, with other workers tending the cooking area. No one visible is clearly identifiable as a person.2012-01-06Outdoor relief-kitchen scene on a dirt road in a cyclone-hit village. Several large metal cooking pots with lids sit on the ground in the foreground, with a bowl of yellow food at lower left. A green-and-blue truck stands at left and an orange-and-red truck at the back, near a line of parked vehicles. Two or three men in lungis and shirts handle the pots and a large basket of food, one in a red shirt. Fallen branches, bare trees and palms show storm damage.2012-01-06A photograph of a relief food-distribution scene outdoors among trees and debris. Several men in white caps and white or pastel shirts and dhotis crowd around a blue wooden-sided truck, loading or handling food. Large black pots and metal vessels sit on the ground at right and left. Orange saffron flags are mounted on the truck, and a large orange banner with a printed portrait and Tamil text hangs on its side. A man in an orange shirt stands at left and another man in a checked shirt with an ID badge stands at right, both observing. Trees and a parked motorcycle are visible in the background.2012-01-04A photo of an outdoor relief kitchen set up on bare dirt beside palm trees and storm-damaged vegetation. Large steel cooking pots and a stack of flat metal griddle pans sit on the ground next to a black iron stove stand and a red LPG gas cylinder. Several small trucks and pickups, one green, one orange and yellow, are parked behind. A man in a white shirt with a green head wrap and a dhoti-clad man in a white shirt stand near the trucks, and a man at left with a watch raises his hand. Laundry hangs on a line at right. Context suggests cyclone relief food distribution (annadaan).2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor relief food distribution under a colourful striped canopy beside palm trees. Several men in white shirts and white hair-net caps stand at a truck with an orange banner; a small group of villagers, including two young boys in checked lungis and a woman in a white sari with green border, wait in line. Stainless steel pots and a steel tiffin stand on a table at right, and a large portrait banner of a smiling saffron-robed figure hangs at upper left.2012-01-04