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Photograph of a festive hall with colourful triangular pennant bunting strung across the pillared corridor and fluorescent tube lights overhead. Food is laid out in the foreground on banana leaves and in steel pots, bowls and plates, including a large steel basin of white food. Two men in saffron-orange robes stand at right and centre; the man at right wears a long gold-coloured beaded necklace and a red forehead mark. A bare-chested man in a yellow dhoti and white forehead marking carries a brass vessel. Several women in white saris with orange borders and a few young men in white stand along the left side.

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October 15 20082008-10-15Seated devotees in a long stone-pillared hall with festoon flags overhead take a shared meal served on banana leaves. In the foreground, two seated men face away from the camera: the one at left is bald, wearing a flower garland and white dhoti with a white shawl over the shoulders, while the one at right has long dark hair and wears a saffron-orange cloth. A row of saffron-robed sannyasis and white-clad devotees sits along the right side, with steel tumblers and leaf plates arranged on the floor. Standing observers in white dhotis and a photographer line the left. a person candidate is ambiguous; a figure's appearance is not distinct enough to assign identity, so the seated men are described by role.2008-10-15A photograph of a long hall with stone pillars and strings of multicoloured pennant flags overhead, where a group of people sits in rows on the floor before banana-leaf plates of food. A bare-chested, orange-clad man stands in the centre with his arms raised in a blessing-like pose, and a man in white dhoti and shirt pours from a vessel nearby. Two seated figures in the foreground wear orange cloth, one with a flower garland, and a brass plate with flowers and small lamps sits on the floor. Sannyasi-style orange robes dominate the seated devotees. The scene looks like a ritual meal or annadan-style gathering, though the exact rite is not clear from the image alone.2008-10-15October 15 20082008-10-15A photograph of a long pillared hall decorated with strings of multicoloured pennant flags, with rows of seated devotees in saffron-orange robes eating from green banana-leaf plates arranged along both sides of the floor. In the foreground, two seated men with shaved heads, one wearing a flower garland, sit facing the central aisle. A man in saffron clothing lies prostrate on the floor in the centre, with steel tumblers and a small plate of offerings nearby. A man in white shirt and white dhoti stands watching, and a person in white holds a camera at left. Lit ceiling fixtures hang overhead.2008-10-15December 30 20092009-12-30October 15 20082008-10-15Indoor photo of a food-serving line in an unfinished concrete hall with blue-and-orange patterned hangings. Saffron-robed sadhus stand at steel counters, one with curly hair and a white forehead mark ladling food from a large steel pot onto steel plates. An older man in a cream shawl and white beard stands beside them. On the right, a smiling man wears a large pink flower garland and an orange shawl with gold-bead necklaces. Behind, white-clad men in dhotis with bare upper bodies and tripundra marks help serve, and women in white saris are visible in the background. Orange-yellow food.2011-09-09Indoor hall with white walls, ceiling fans and tiled floor. In the foreground, three sannyasis in rust-red and saffron-bordered robes walk left; the one in front wears a long beaded mala and a red forehead mark, and the others wear rudraksha malas. Behind them an orange-saried woman with a garland walks, and a man in white shirt and trousers carries a plate of food past a buffet line of stainless chafing dishes, water bottles and attendants in white caps and aprons. Seated guests in white and devotees in white dress fill the background. A purple logo appears at top left and a copyright line at bottom right.2015-07-01 +1 copiesA photograph inside a covered hall with a metal roof, where a procession walks along a railed walkway. In the foreground a figure in saffron-orange robes wears a red flower garland and carries a red-and-yellow bundle, with yellow-and-white flower decorations. Beside and behind him, a line of people in white dhotis and white kurtas with yellow shawls follows, some with hands joined in greeting. Painted wooden pillars with colourful geometric patterns line the background, and framed photographs of a saffron-robed figure hang on the wall at left alongside a bookshelf.July 07 20092009-07-07May 28 20122012-05-28 +1 copies