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Night-time medical camp under a covered porch with green-painted pillars. A large orange banner behind the crowd shows a smiling man in an orange turban and reads "Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam". A seated white-clad medical worker in a white coat writes at a table while a crowd of villagers presses in, including women in colourful saris, children and men in striped and yellow shirts. A young girl in a white dress and a small boy stand near the table. Several people are visible on the right in white shirts.

Outdoor photo of a group of devotees gathered closely around a tall framed display board with Tamil text and photographs on a dirt path beside a chain-link fence and green foliage. A man in a plain white shirt with a rudraksha mala stands at the right, leaning in to the board, while a curly-haired person in white with back to camera holds a small paper and another man in a white shirt bends over the group. Several women wear sarees: one in a red blouse with a long braid, one in a dark maroon top, one in a yellow-green saree with tilak, and one in a black blouse with an orange-red saree and gold bangles, handing over currency notes. Two older women with white hair and one older man in white are also present, and a woman in teal stands at the left edge. A date stamp reads 20 10 2006.

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A photograph of a crowd at an outdoor evening event. In the left foreground a figure in an orange saffron robe with a gold necklace stands with a bare shoulder and arm extended, reaching toward a seated man in a dark shirt whose head is bowed. Around them devotees in white shirts and dhotis stand with palms pressed together in namaskar, and a woman in a green sari with gold jewellery is nearby. A man in a white shirt wears a rudraksha mala. A large screen in the background shows a decorated deity image and crowds, and stage lights and cameras are visible. The a person cue is an orange-robed figure with a gold necklace, but the face is not visible so the identity is uncertain.

Photograph of an outdoor evening event at dusk. A line of devotees queues beside a table of books and pamphlets draped in white cloth, next to a white bus with blue-curtained canopy. A man in a white t-shirt with a saffron-orange lanyard, glasses and a wristwatch hands a small card or booklet to a woman in a red-and-white floral saree with a red bindi and gold bangles. Beside her a woman in a rust-red patterned salwar kameez with a brown dupatta holds papers, and an older man in white shirt and white dhoti stands with a grey moustache. A man in a white shirt stands at left, and others are visible in the background under the blue drapes.

Outdoor ritual at a festival ground under a bright sky, with palm trees and tall lighting poles behind. In the centre, a grey-haired man in a white shirt with a vibhuti line on his forehead holds his hands over a brass plate while a shaven-headed priest in a white dhoti and orange-saffron shawl with rudraksha malas seated beside him pours or offers from a bowl of dark material. A younger man in a checked shirt sits at the left, and a young woman in a pink salwar kameez with gold necklace and kumkum on her forehead stands at the right. Behind them a brass deity murti sits on a pink cloth draped with a garland, with brass oil lamps and a kalasha-style vessel nearby, and a banner hangs in the background. The priest is not clearly identifiable as a person from appearance, so no identity is asserted.

January 30 2016

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A seated figure on the left wears a red-maroon shawl, a white floral garland with blue and gold beads, rudraksha beads on the arm and a white forehead mark, and holds out a sheet of paper. Beside them a woman in an orange sari and rudraksha mala stands, and to the right a bent-over devotee in a red sari receives the paper while a man in a white shirt with a blue lanyard stands in the foreground. Several women in pink and blue saris stand in the background with hands joined in namaste, and a small girl in pink watches. A gold-coloured seat or throne is partly visible. The figure seated on the left has long, swept-back hair and distinctive garlanded, saffron-toned ceremonial attire, so the appearance is a person candidate in person, presiding over a paper-handover moment.

January 17 2016