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A photograph of an open-air outdoor kitchen under a red and multicoloured canopy, with large painted banners showing a river landscape and temple scene behind it. Several people in plain white dhoti-style and sari-style clothing stand and work around cooking stoves and large pots, a man in white with a yellow shawl stands centrally, and others attend nearby. Steel vessels, a cooking pot on a stove, and a sack are visible on a concrete floor. The scene suggests communal food preparation.

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January 02 20122012-01-02A photograph of an outdoor langar-style food distribution under a draped red and maroon cloth canopy. In the foreground a large metal cooking pot sits on a stove while a man in white dhoti and shirt, with long hair, stirs or ladles food with a long steel spoon. Beside him another man in white clothes works at the pot. A person in a red top and white cloth stands at left with a bowl. A large painted banner of a green landscape with a temple and orange motifs hangs at right. Behind, more people in white and a few in red sit and stand near tables and blue tarpaulins.2012-01-02January 02 20122012-01-02Outdoor relief kitchen under a cloth awning painted with a landscape of trees, red-orange hills and a blue sky. A woman in a white sari with a blue border stirs food in a large aluminium pot on a metal gas stove. Beside her, a man in a white dhoti and shirt wears a rudraksha mala, and a woman in white stands with a yellow shawl. Another woman in white with a yellow shawl and a woman in a white sari watch. Pots, a wok and cloth bundles lie on the concrete floor. No portrait or identifiable a person figure is visible.2012-01-02Outdoor photo under a red and multicoloured patterned canopy with striped fringe, palm trees behind. A standing man in orange saffron robes with a dark rudraksha-style bead mala around his neck faces left, hands together near his chest. Beside him a man in white shirt and white dhoti stands, and an elderly man with grey hair in white clothes stands at right with hands held together. A seated woman in white and a person in orange stand in the background near large painted cloth panels showing red and orange chariot or temple-car scenes. Steel vessels, a bowl of red liquid, a plastic water bottle, and bags of offerings sit on the concrete floor.2012-01-02Photograph taken under a red and patterned canopy with colourful fringe, beside a painted cloth backdrop showing orange-flamed scenes of figures and trees. Several people in white ritual clothing stand and kneel on a blue tarpaulin and dirt ground, with an elderly man in white at left gesturing with raised hands. A woman in a white sari with a long braid stands center, while another woman in pink-and-white sari with a long braid kneels near a metal pot holding fruit or offerings. A man in white kneels at the right of the central group. A woman in a teal salwar kameez stands at far right beside a pile of bricks and metal sheets. Metal vessels and a plastic water container sit on the ground. Simple ritual activity in an outdoor camp setting.2012-01-02Outdoor relief-camp kitchen or prayer setup under a red and multicoloured striped canopy with patterned red cloth. A standing man in saffron-orange robes and a rudraksha mala gestures toward a large painted backdrop showing red vehicles and trees. Nearby, devotees in white dhotis and shawls stand around steel pots, bowls, a bowl of yellow marigold garlands, and a sack with a rice label. A young woman in white sits at the right, and another saffron-robed man stands at the back holding a camera. Several people are visible in the frame.2012-01-02Outdoor relief-camp scene under a red and green patterned canopy with a painted backdrop of trees and a red vehicle by water. A figure in orange robes with a rudraksha-style necklace stands at center, gesturing over metal pots, bowls and bags of rice on a concrete floor. Around them, men in white dhotis and shirts stand close, one holding a bowl of marigold-type yellow flowers at lower left, and an older man with grey hair and white clothes stands nearby. Plastic jugs and bottles sit at right. The page suggests a cyclone relief context, but no clear event text is visible in the image itself.2012-01-02January 02 20122012-01-02January 02 20122012-01-02Outdoor relief kitchen under a large canopy with red, orange and green patterned fabric and striped valance. Several people in white or light clothing serve food from big steel cooking pots and a metal pot of stew. A woman in a red blouse and white sari stands in the foreground ladling from a pot. Seated people sit on plastic chairs at left. Palm trees and storm-damaged trees stand behind a grassy open field, with vehicles parked in the distance.2012-01-02A open-air food preparation tent with a red patterned canopy and painted cloth walls. Several men in white dhotis and shirts cook rice in large steel pots on portable gas stoves; one man in a white shirt stirs yellow rice with a ladle in the centre. Other workers in white and green headcloths tend pots nearby, and red LPG cylinders sit on the ground. The scene suggests a community annadan kitchen.2012-01-03