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Photo of a food service hall at an ashram-style event with white walls, a curved roof, ceiling fans and orange and red curtains. Volunteers in white clothes and a woman in a green and cream sari with a braid and a yellow sash serve food from steel trays onto plates. Trays hold fried snacks, watermelon slices and sweets, and devotees queue along the counter. Several people in white are seated or moving through the hall. Roughly twenty people are visible.

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A photograph of a serving line in a hall with a curved corrugated roof and ceiling fans. A woman in a white top with a yellow scarf, wearing gloves, serves fried snacks from a steel tray. Beside her, fruit trays hold sliced papaya and watermelon. Devotees in saris and white shirts queue with steel plates, while orange and red curtains hang along the walls. Many attendees are visible with plates of food.2009-09-03A photograph of a community annadaan meal service inside a plain hall with pale green-grey walls, a ceiling fan and tube lights. Volunteers serve food from steel trays and bowls onto steel plates held by diners. A smiling man on the left wears white clothing, glasses and a red lanyard, holding a steel plate of food. Beside him a woman in a white shawl and red lanyard serves from a tray. Women on the right wear clear plastic gloves, one in a red salwar and another in a green kurta with a red lanyard, ladling dal and curry. Steel containers of rice and curry line the serving counter. Sheer curtains and windows are visible behind.2009-06-25August 27 20082008-08-27 +1 copiesMarch 11 20172017-03-11 +1 copiesAnnadhan in 20092009-01-01 +4 copiesA photograph of volunteers serving a communal meal in a bright whitewashed hall. An older man on the left with glasses and white clothes, a red lanyard around his neck, holds a steel plate of rice, vegetables and sweets. Beside him, women in white, pale green, teal and red saris and salwar kameez, all wearing red lanyards and plastic gloves, ladle curry and dal from steel pots into plates. Steel containers and serving dishes line the counter, with a red curtain and window at the back.2009-06-25Annadhan in 20152015-01-01 +1 copiesAugust 13 20092009-08-13A photo of an annadan style communal meal in a plain white hall with yellow curtains and ceiling fans. A man in an orange shirt with a rudraksha-style cord stands at left, serving from a long steel counter filled with metal pans and bowls. Several people in white clothes, including a man in a white shirt and a woman in white with a pink dupatta, wait in line holding steel plates to receive food. Others sit at tables at the back.2009-07-23A photo of an annadan style meal service in a hall with orange curtains and ceiling fans. Volunteers in white clothes and aprons, some wearing gloves, serve food from steel pots and trays onto plates held by a line of people. On the left a man in an orange robe with a rudraksha mala stands near the serving counter. A bald man with a long beard in white clothes stands among the line, with a woman in a pink dupatta and a woman in white at the right. No clear, unambiguous evidence of a person's presence is visible; the orange-robed figure is not identifiable as him from appearance alone.2009-07-23July 02 20132013-07-02 +1 copiesA food service line in a decorated hall with white draped ceiling and terracotta lattice windows. Women in white garments with orange shawls serve rice, curry and a creamy dish from steel pots on a floral-patterned cloth-covered table. A woman in an orange and yellow shawl holds a steel plate of rice and curry, and a woman in a pink sari stands beside her. A man in a white t-shirt with an event badge and other attendees stand in the background. A painted decorative pillar with an elephant motif is visible at right. Several people appear in the frame, with some partially visible.2010-02-21