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A large outdoor meal service on a dry sandy ground at an ashram-style campus with red-painted walls and bamboo in the background. Many people in white clothes and colourful saris move among rows of white plastic chairs, carrying leaf or metal plates of food. In the foreground a server in a hairnet and lavender shirt stands behind a clear plastic sneeze guard, and a man in a white shirt with an ID badge sits at right. A monk-like man in saffron/orange robes carries a plate near the center, and another person in orange sits on red mats at right. Red mats cover the seating area and banners hang on poles overhead.

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A large outdoor gathering under red and yellow canopies with gold fringe, where many devotees dressed mostly in white sit on a red mat and eat from plates while others walk between rows. A woman in white with glasses stands at left, a man in a white dhoti carries a plate, and a woman in white with a green-sleeved blouse stands center right. Several seated people wear lanyard badges, and bags and bottles lie on the mat. Yellow draped tents and greenery frame the scene. No a person candidate is clearly visible.2016-01-31A photograph of a large outdoor annadan meal service under a tent with yellow, blue and red draped fabric. A long queue of mostly white-clad devotees, many women in white saris and men in white shirts and dhotis, holds round leaf plates and paper cups while serving counters with steel trays of food line the centre. Volunteers in white, one in a white shirt with an ID badge, ladle food onto plates. A woman in an orange sari stands at the right edge. Several people wear lanyard badges.2016-01-31January 31 20162016-01-31November 01 20152015-11-01November 25 20062006-11-25December 06 20112011-12-06A 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.2006-12-30January 01 20092009-01-01Outdoor 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 copiesA large crowd of men in white dhotis and white shirts fills a tent with red floor covering and yellow draped walls. Many stand or sit on the red floor holding round steel plates of food, and some carry yellow cloth bags. A few men wear orange shawls or saffron garments. The scene looks like a mass annadan meal served during a festival at the ashram. No single figure is clearly identifiable as a person.2016-01-02May 10 20172017-05-10January 31 20162016-01-31