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A crowded indoor hall with a bright, hazy light from high windows. A long table draped in white cloth runs across the foreground, where a line of women in saris and salwar kameez queue and reach toward steel pots and stainless steel vessels with a man in a white shirt serving from a steel urn at the right. Many women wear white, cream, green and orange garments, gold bangles and braided hair with flowers. Behind them more devotees in white and pastel clothes fill the hall.

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A photograph of a large indoor hall with pillars and open walls where a crowd of many people queues at a long table covered with a white cloth. Women in white saris, colourful salwar and sarees, and some in pink, yellow and purple, stand in line; a man in a tan uniform-style shirt and a man in a light blue shirt serve from the table, where a steel vessel and a small cup sit beside a tray. Several women wear flowers in their braided hair. Many people visible in the background stand in rows, consistent with a bhiksha serving line before a Kalpataru program.2010-02-14A crowded indoor hall with pillars and large windows where women and men queue along a long white-covered serving table. Several women in sarees and garlanded hair, one in pink and red, another in green and blue, stand waiting while volunteers in white and orange serve from large steel vessels and cups. A man in beige uniform bends over a steel pot at the table's end. Steel pots and buckets sit on the floor. Dense crowd fills the background, consistent with a bhiksha food distribution.2010-02-14July 30 20092009-07-30A large, bright hall with a corrugated metal roof, ceiling fans and rows of windows, filled with a dense crowd of people standing and queuing for a communal meal. Men wear white shirts and white dhotis, while many women wear cotton saris in pink, peach, orange and maroon. Several volunteers in white stand behind long serving tables, one holding a steel vessel and ladling food onto plates held out by queuing devotees, with stacks of flatbread visible on a table. Many participants wear name badges. Standing and serving activity suggests an annadan meal distribution.2009-07-30A large crowd of devotees queues under a dark canopy at an outdoor food serving area, collecting meals from a long green-topped counter. Many women wear saris and salwar kameez in mixed colours, some with lanyards and ID badges; men in white shirts and dhotis stand among them. Several hold steel plates or plastic trays of food, and a stainless-steel vessel sits on the counter. Palm trees and a white building are visible beyond the tent. The scene looks like an annadan or community meal line; the crowd is too dense to count precisely.2009-11-28December 16 20062006-12-16May 10 20172017-05-10Outdoor serving line under a red and white canopy at a Vellore, Tamil Nadu gathering. A man in a checked shirt and mustard lungi ladles food from a large stainless steel container onto a steel counter. Around him, devotees in white clothes and cream or white saris crowd the counter. A woman in a cream sari with a rudraksha-style beaded necklace gestures toward the counter, while a woman in white with a shawl holds a small paper cup. Stacked white and red plastic chairs stand behind a low wall, and palm trees and houses fill the background. No a person candidate is clearly visible.2006-11-25A crowded indoor hall with white walls and a white ceiling fan, where many people in white dhotis, white shirts and saris queue and gather around long tables covered with white and red cloths. Several people hold green leaf plates of food, and one woman in an orange blouse and white sari stands near the table. A purple emblem with a bird appears in the top-left corner. The scene looks like a communal meal being served, consistent with an annadan at a satsang and darshan gathering. No one is identifiable as a person in this view.2009-06-14September 20 20122012-09-20A food service line inside a large hall with a blue cloth backdrop and pillars. Young men in beige shirts stand behind steel pots and ladle food onto green plates held out by people in white. Attendees in white kurtas and dhotis and women in sarees and salwar stand in line, and a man in a white shirt at right holds a plate. Plastic spoons sit on a tray on the table in front. The scene shows meal distribution, annadan, at a gathering.2010-02-14A photograph of a large hall with a long queue of women and children moving through the space. Women wear colourful saris and salwar kameez in green, red, yellow, pink, blue and cream, with flowers in their hair. A woman in a cream sari with a red border carries a plate, and a child in an orange shirt and a boy in a pink checked shirt stand near her. Several hands reach toward a serving counter at left where food is being distributed. A yellow cloth hangs from the ceiling, red curtains frame the windows, and a television is mounted on the far wall.2014-10-12