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Outdoor community kitchen under a tarpaulin canopy with palm trees behind. A man in white shirt and dhoti, wearing a green hairnet, stands beside a large aluminium cauldron of cooked rice. Several workers in green hairnets and sleeveless vests or colourful lungis stir and carry steel pots on the bare ground, and a woman in a red and purple sari works among them. Large steel vessels and a sack labelled AGNI sit on the ground, part of an annadhan food-distribution setup.

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January 04 20122012-01-04January 03 20122012-01-03An open-sided tin-roofed shelter in a cyclone-damaged village with palm trees and fallen branches, used for a community meal (annadaan). Several men in white dhotis and white shirts, some wearing green or white hair nets, stir and serve food from large steel pots of rice. One bare-chested man wears a white dhoti with a gold-bordered cloth and a green cap; another in white shirt and dhoti stands at right with a gold wristwatch. A man in a light shirt at left wears an ID lanyard. Steel vessels of vegetables and curries line the counter.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06A photograph of an open-sided outdoor kitchen under a corrugated metal roof and tarpaulin, used for mass food preparation. Large steel cooking vessels sit on open wood fires on bare ground. Several people in white shirts and dhotis, and women in saris, wear blue-green hair caps and work around the pots and metal trays of cooked rice and prepared food. Sacks, plastic packets and bowls lie on the ground. Palm trees and a boundary wall are visible behind, and a child stands at the right. Plain work clothing and the open ground suggest a relief-food setting.2012-01-04January 04 20122012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04An outdoor community kitchen under a striped and patterned canvas awning. Large aluminium cooking pots with lids sit on dirt ground in the foreground, one with a yellow-tinged food inside. A woman in an orange-and-pink patterned sari and green hairnet stirs a pot, while a woman in a white sari and hairnet stands at right beside a uniformed police officer in khaki with a red cap. Men in white shirts and white dhotis, some with hairnets, work among sacks and plastic bags of supplies. No a person candidate is visible.2012-01-04January 07 20122012-01-07