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A large bright hall with white walls and tall windows serves a communal meal. Many people in white dhotis and white shirts or saris line up and stand at long tables holding metal trays and steel bowls, while others are seated on the floor eating from leaf plates. Volunteers in white with lanyards ladle food from large steel pots at the serving counter. A blue sign reading kitchen hangs above a doorway at the back. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person in this scene.

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July 12 20092009-07-12A large indoor dining hall with white walls and high windows holds a dense crowd eating lunch at white plastic chairs and round tables. Many attendees wear white shirts and white clothing, while others wear colourful saris in green, pink and red. Several staff in white uniforms carry plates and serve food. A man in an orange shirt eats at the right foreground. Blue and orange banners hang on the back wall, and plastic water bottles sit on tables. Lunch service at a workshop gathering.2009-07-12A large photograph of a crowded indoor hall with a metal roof and tall pillars, where hundreds of people stand and sit eating from green-rimmed plates of rice and curry. Most men wear white shirts and white dhotis or trousers, while women wear sarees and salwar kameez in bright colours. Many are holding plates and steel bowls, and a few are seated at plastic chairs near the front.2010-02-14A large, bright hall with tall windows and white walls hosts a crowded communal meal. Many men and women in white shirts, dhotis and sarees, plus some in colourful shirts, stand or sit at white plastic chairs holding plates of food. A woman in a yellow saree with a long braid and a man in a bright blue shirt are prominent in the foreground. Banners hang on the back wall and blue signs read REST ROOMS.2009-07-12A large indoor hall with a steel-framed roof and high windows is filled with a dense crowd of people, mostly men in white shirts and dhotis, with some women in saris and salwar kameez. Many are standing and holding green-banana-leaf or steel plates of food, eating at long tables and serving lines. Tall decorative carved pillars and brown drapes line the upper walls. A blue sign hangs on a pillar, and a small banner appears at the left. The scene resembles a large communal meal served during an event.2010-02-14A large white hall filled with a dense crowd of people seated on white plastic chairs at tables, many holding round plates of food during a lunch meal. Men in white shirts and dhotis, a woman in a green sari, a man in a pink shirt and others in checked shirts eat or walk between tables. Stacks of white chairs line the right wall beneath tall windows. No a person candidate is visible in this scene.2009-07-12A large white-walled hall filled with many people eating a communal meal. Most men wear white shirts and light trousers, some women wear saris in orange, red and green, and a few wear blue or grey. People stand and sit at white chairs holding round steel plates of food, moving between serving and eating areas. A sign above the doorway reads Kitchen, with a second Tamil sign beside it. Large windows line the upper walls. No single figure can be clearly identified as a person, so no candidate is noted.2009-07-12July 30 20092009-07-30February 14 20102010-02-14February 14 20102010-02-14A large hall with stainless steel serving tables and concrete pillars where many men in white shirts and white dhotis queue and sit for a communal meal. In the foreground a young man in a white shirt holds a white plate with food, and a man in a white shirt beside him carries a steel tray. Several seated diners eat from white plates with rice and curry. Many people in white, some wearing rudraksha-style beaded necklaces, fill the room. Water bottles sit on the table. This looks like an annadan or prasadam meal at a convention.2006-12-15A large hall filled with many people in white clothing serving a communal meal. Volunteers in white shirts and trousers, some wearing white caps, stand at long steel serving tables stacked with steel pots, bowls and flatbreads, and stacks of round flatbreads sit on the tables. Tall pillars decorated with red, blue, yellow and white geometric patterns and orange fringe hang from a white ceiling, and orange cloth draping and a golden decorative seat appear along the back wall. Several people in the foreground wear white and one wears a grey shirt, and many more stand throughout the room in the background. The scene reads as an annadan style community meal.2010-08-19