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September 16 2006

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A black granite foundation plaque with gold-lettered Tamil text and a white dove logo stands on a white-draped table outdoors at an ashram inauguration. The plaque reads Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, Tiruvannamalai, with the name Paramahamsa Nithyananda and the date 19.4.2008 in the inscription. Dark silhouettes of people are reflected in the polished stone. A blue plastic chair and a partly visible figure in a red and gold sari appear at the edges.2008-04-19A close photograph of a black rectangular sign set into a pale stone wall, reading in Kannada and English 'Patanjali shrine'. Below it sits a weathered stone block with a white painted symbol and a small hole, on a dusty ground. Above the sign, a stone pillar base and a faded painted panel are visible near a wet stone platform. No people are present.2010-09-30August 03 20092009-08-03A large blue roadside signboard on a metal frame reads Dhyanapeetam in Kannada and English, with a white bird-in-egg style logo at top. A white arrow points right toward the ashram, and a contact line lists phone and fax numbers with the website www.nithyananda.org. Behind it stand a paved road, dry scrubby brown ground with low shrubs, palm trees on the left, and a plain pale-beige building with a flat roof on the right. No people are visible.2007-04-20January 04 20122012-01-04A large blue roadside hoarding stands on a dusty plot beside a paved road. Its top shows a white emblem of a bird-like figure, with Kannada script reading ಧ್ಯಾನಪೀಠ and the English word Dhyanapeetam below, followed by phone and fax numbers, an arrow pointing left, and the website www.nithyananda.org. A white car drives on the road and a yellow truck passes on the right. Tall palm trees and scrubby vegetation line the background under a hazy sky, with small heaps of earth and litter on the ground.2007-04-20July 28 20082008-07-28A roadside billboard against a pale blue sky, mounted on a steel frame above a red and green painted wall. The sign is cream-coloured with bold blue and black lettering in Kannada and English. Two framed images sit on the board: on the left, a portrait labelled "Paramahamsa Nithyananda" shows a smiling woman with long dark hair in orange robes; on the right, a painted deity murti in an ornate gilded frame shows a figure beside a flower-decorated altar. A brown arrow points right toward the temple. Power lines run across the sky, and a pale concrete wall stands at the lower right. No people are physically present in the scene.2009-10-15August 17 20072007-08-17 +1 copiesJanuary 01 20032003-01-01 +1 copiesApril 09 20122012-04-09August 15 20142014-08-15