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Women sit on the floor of a plain room chopping vegetables for a kitchen or ashram meal. Several wear white saris with orange shawls, while a woman in a blue top and checked cloth and an older woman in a pink and gold sari also work. Tomatoes, green beans, cauliflower, cucumbers and carrots lie on a grey tarp and in steel bowls and baskets. Behind them, a framed portrait of a saffron-robed sannyasi with a garland hangs above a white-draped table, with a steel vessel set on a shelf at the right.

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January 20 20192019-01-20January 20 20192019-01-20September 06 20092009-09-06A group of women sit cross-legged on a mat in a covered hall with a red wall, preparing vegetables for a kitchen. Most wear white saris with bordered edges and white hairnets. A woman in front wears an orange blouse and cuts green beans; others trim beans and chop greens into steel trays. Heaps of green beans, pumpkins, potatoes, carrots and gourds lie around them, and steel vessels sit in the background. Several women wear ID badges on their saris.2019-01-20January 20 20192019-01-20Women volunteers sit cross-legged on a floor covered with cloth, preparing vegetables in a kitchen. They wear white and cream saris with coloured borders, and white hairnets. Piles of green beans, carrots, cucumbers, pumpkins and potatoes surround them, and a large aluminium cooking pot sits in the centre beside a steel bowl of beans. Steel trays and a metal worktable are visible behind.2019-01-20A group of women and men sit cross-legged on the floor of a plain, sunlit kitchen cutting vegetables for a community meal. Hairnets cover their heads. Several wear white or cream clothing, while one woman in a pink saree with a green blouse sits at left. Heaps of carrots, green beans, pumpkins, gourds, cucumbers, potatoes and leafy greens lie on a burlap sack. A large steel cooking pot sits at the left edge, and a rose-coloured wall stands behind them. This is an annadan-style food preparation scene, but no a person is visible.2019-01-20A smiling woman sits cross-legged on a wooden floor in a plain room, wearing a white sari with an orange shawl draped over her shoulders and a red bindi. She holds a folded yellow cloth in her lap while sorting green beans and leafy greens spread on a floral cloth. Steel bowls, a plastic bucket, plastic produce bags, a steel pot and a metal tiffin-style container sit around her, with a floral curtain on the wall behind.2006-10-06Four women sit cross-legged on a red-tinted floor, serving food onto green banana leaves. The woman at left wears a white blouse, an orange sari and a tilak on her forehead, and is placing food on her leaf. The woman in the centre wears white with an orange shawl and bangles, and sits beside a steel tumbler. The two women at right wear orange saris and are also seated before leaves. Behind them, orange-clad figures sit in a hall with yellow doors, and two men in white stand at the back. No a person candidate is visible in the frame.2006-08-21Women seated on a concrete floor in a white-walled room prepare offerings for a pradosha puja. Several women wear orange saris with white blouses and gold bangles, and one wears a white garment with a long braid. Stainless steel pots and bowls hold chopped ingredients and water, and brass vessels and lamps sit nearby. Red and orange flower garlands are piled at the right edge, and two people in white and orange robes stand in a doorway in the background.2007-09-24November 27 20122012-11-27Photo of a storeroom-kitchen for an ashram annadan, with volunteers preparing food on the floor. Four people sit or crouch on a blue tarpaulin among heaps of fresh tomatoes, potatoes and green leafy vegetables being sorted and chopped. A woman in a white top with a rudraksha-style necklace and a woman in a green sari work at the centre; a person in a blue shirt sits at left, and another in a pink sari with a hairnet cuts greens at front. Stacked sacks of grain and rice fill the background, with steel pots and blue plastic drums at right.2012-01-08