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A large, bright hall with white pillars, a high ceiling and a railed upper gallery hosts a communal meal. Long rows of tables are covered with green banana-leaf style plates, and many seated diners in white and colourful clothes eat while others move between the rows. In the centre foreground, a man with a tall orange turban, orange robe and rudraksha mala walks carrying a large steel bucket, while a man in white with an orange shawl follows, holding a plate. Red plastic chairs line the tables, and volunteers in white serve food. The setting suggests an annadan style community feeding.

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December 12 20072007-12-12A large white hall with a mezzanine balcony and rows of long tables covered with green banana leaves, where many people sit on red plastic chairs to eat a meal. In the centre a man with long hair and a bright orange turban, wearing an orange robe and carrying a steel bucket, walks between the tables serving food. Beside him a man in white dhoti and an orange shawl, and another man in a white shirt and orange shawl, walk past the seated diners. Women in saris and men in white shirts are eating, with rice served on leaves. A vast crowd is visible throughout the hall, and the scene resembles a communal meal or annadan.2007-12-12A large white-walled hall with a metal roof and rows of seated diners eating from banana leaves on long tables, with red plastic chairs. In the centre, a man in an orange turban, orange shawl and orange dhoti stands behind the line serving food from a steel plate; beside him a man in white ritual clothes and an orange shawl also carries serving dishes. Several people in white and orange move along the rows. The image is a photograph of an annadan meal service with servers and rice being served on leaf plates.2007-12-12A large hall with white walls and high windows where a communal meal is being served on long rows of tables. Many seated people eat from green banana-leaf plates, and servers in white shirts and mundus walk along the rows serving rice from steel pots. In the foreground a saffron-clad sannyasi with long hair and an orange turban carries a steel pot and serves rice, while another man in white with an orange shawl stands at right beside the tables. Dozens of attendees in white and mixed clothing sit throughout the hall, consistent with an annadan feeding event.2007-12-12A photograph of a large communal dining hall with rows of long tables covered in green banana-leaf plates, where many seated men in white clothes eat. In the foreground a man in a saffron-orange robe with a long orange turban, a rudraksha mala and long dark hair is serving food from a steel pot. Beside him a younger man wears white with an orange shawl and an orange rosette, and a man in an orange shawl stands at right. Red plastic chairs line the tables. Upper balcony and white walls surround the hall.2007-12-12December 12 20072007-12-12December 12 20072007-12-12A large white hall with upper gallery railings where a long dining event is underway, with rows of red plastic chairs and long tables set with green banana-leaf plates. In the centre, a man with a bright orange turban, orange robe, long rudraksha mala and white gloves serves food from a steel pot onto plates. Beside him, a shaved-headed man in white with an orange shawl and another in white with an orange shawl stand nearby, while a man in a white shirt and dark trousers gestures to the side.2007-12-12A large indoor hall with white pillars and balconies serves a community meal to rows of seated devotees on red plastic chairs at long tables covered with green banana leaves. A man in a tall orange turban, long hair and orange robes with a rudraksha mala serves rice from a steel pot. Beside him, a man in an orange shawl over white clothes holds a silver tray of rice, and another man with an orange shawl and a garland-like ribbon stands nearby. Several women in white saris with red borders are seated, and about forty people are visible.2007-12-12A large hall with white pillars and red plastic chairs at long tables covered with green banana-leaf plates, where many people sit eating a meal. Volunteers in white clothes move between the tables serving food, and one woman in an orange sari carries a dish. Several people stand at the back of the hall, and a metal scaffold tower stands at the right edge. The scene looks like a community annadan meal at an ashram event. No person in the scene can be identified as a person with confidence from appearance.2007-12-12A large white-walled hall with a multi-storey concrete structure and railings in the background, filled with rows of long tables and red plastic chairs where many people are seated eating from green banana-leaf style plates. Most attendees wear white clothing, including white shirts, dhotis and saris, with some in pink, red and green. Several staff move between the tables carrying metal vessels and trays, and one figure in an orange robe stands near the centre among the crowd. This appears to be a communal dining setting.2007-12-12December 12 20072007-12-12