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A photograph of an outdoor food-preparation area under a tarp with many large burlap sacks opened on a tiled ground. Loose cauliflower, leafy greens and stalks of vegetables spill out of the sacks. A woman in a brown top and red-and-maroon checked skirt bends over the sacks sorting produce, while others in white aprons, white caps and hairnets work at tables behind her. Plastic crates and a metal basin sit nearby, with a patterned banner pole at the left edge. The scene reflects annadhan food preparation at the ashram.

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January 04 20122012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04Volunteers prepare vegetables for the annadaan kitchen in an open-sided shed. Several women wear light blue disposable hair caps and sit on the ground sorting and cutting pale green cabbages from heaps spread on a blue tarpaulin. Behind them, a large pile of bright red tomatoes rests on a concrete platform. A standing woman in a white dhoti-style garment with a yellow shawl directs the work. Sacks of rice and gunny bags lie along the wall, with clothes drying on lines beyond.2012-01-06Outdoor relief camp under a corrugated metal roof with wooden posts, sheltering a food distribution (annadaan) operation in a village setting with palm trees. Volunteers in white surgical caps and hairnets sit on the ground chopping vegetables from sacks of produce and stir large steel cooking pots. Blue tarpaulin is spread with rice and grain sacks and steel containers. Many people mill about in mixed clothing, some in white. In the right foreground a man in a white dhoti with an orange-yellow border stands barefoot, his back partly turned to the camera; he is not further identified. Plastic chairs and a red bucket are scattered around the site.2012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04A covered outdoor relief kitchen under a dark tarpaulin roof on a flat, sandy site with palm trees beyond. Women in green and red saris and blue hair nets sit and work among heaps of produce: green okra-like pods, pale green gourds, red tomatoes and piles of fresh ginger on blue tarps. Large white sacks of rice or grain are stacked in the foreground, and steel cooking pots and tables are set up along the back. Several people are visible in the background, working around the stalls. No one is identifiable as a particular figure, and this is an everyday relief-camp scene rather than a ritual.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor food preparation under a red and white patterned canopy on a blue tarpaulin. Many women and a few men wear light green disposable hairnets; women wear colourful saris in orange, pink, purple and red. Seated workers sort and chop green beans and cauliflower; a woman in a purple sari carries a bundle on her head, and a man in a peach shirt and patterned lungi stands at right. Large steel pots, sacks and bowls surround them, and palm trees appear behind.2012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06