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A large open-air tent with orange and white striped canopy shows hundreds of saffron-robed sadhus and devotees seated in long rows on the bare ground, eating from metal and paper plates. A man in orange clothes with a waist cloth bends at right, serving food from a steel bucket onto plates. Many seated men wear orange or yellow turbans and have long white beards. Tent poles and standing devotees in orange fill the background.

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April 23 20162016-04-23April 21 20162016-04-21May 07 20162016-05-07May 07 20162016-05-07A large outdoor tent filled with rows of people seated on the ground eating a communal meal from steel plates, a scene of mass annadan (free food). Most seated people wear saffron-orange robes and some wear orange turbans or head wraps; a few men wear cream and white kurtas and a man in a purple shirt in the foreground eats from a thali of rice and curry. Orange tent poles and white canopy frame the hall, with water bottles and steel plates set along the floor. Hundreds of people are visible, and an orange-clad figure in the foreground with white beard sits near the centre-left. No printed names or event captions are readable apart from a copyright line on the image.2016-05-07A large outdoor tent filled with hundreds of seated devotees in orange, saffron and white clothing, sitting on the ground in rows before metal thali plates and small oil lamps. In the foreground a bearded man in an orange robe with a saffron shawl sits cross-legged beside a younger man in orange with an orange turban, both with plates in front of them. Further right an older bearded man in white and a woman in red sari with orange-clad attendees. Tent poles are draped in orange cloth. The setting resembles a communal meal or prasadam service at a large gathering.2016-04-23A large outdoor tent filled with many seated sadhus in orange and saffron robes taking a communal meal on the ground. Rows of plates hold food, with steel water glasses and buckets along the lines. A server in a grey top and orange headwrap bends forward carrying a basket of food past the rows. White tent poles line the hall, and the people in the foreground include men with long grey hair and beards, some in white cloth. No individual here is identifiable as a person.2016-04-21April 21 20162016-04-21April 21 20162016-04-21April 23 20162016-04-23April 21 20162016-04-21May 11 20162016-05-11