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A photograph of a video-conference screen showing several remote participants in tiled windows along the left side. The main tile shows a seated woman in a white top with a blue-and-white scarf, holding a phone to her ear, sitting on a rug beside a low table of offerings and fruit plates. Behind her, a shrine area with a framed deity image, a flower-decorated altar and an orange cloth. A second woman with short grey hair sits on a white sofa in the same tile. The bottom-left caption on the screen reads a Washington, D.C. location. No a person candidate is visible in the frame.

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A photograph of a large screen showing a video call grid. The main tile shows a woman with dark hair sitting cross-legged on a rug in a home shrine room, wearing a white striped shirt, dark trousers and a long beaded mala, holding a phone to her ear. Beside her a woman with short hair in a teal top sits on a cream sofa with a yellow cushion. Behind them is an altar with a framed deity picture, flowers, brass items, a red-and-gold cloth and food offerings on plates. Smaller tiles on the left show more participants in a grid. Fully visible physical people in the room: two. No a person candidate is visibly present on the screens.2012-09-13A screen displaying a live video call with several panels. On the left panel, a man in white kurta and a woman in a light blue sari kneel at a low puja table with brass plates, flowers, and a framed portrait on a wall behind them. On the right panel, a figure with long dark hair, orange-saffron clothing, a rudraksha mala, a forehead tilak, and a crown-like headpiece sits on a red tiger-striped throne. The screen-within-photo shows people on screens, not physical people in the room.2012-09-13Two computer monitors on a table show a video conference. The larger left screen displays a grid of many small video tiles of people in saffron, orange and white clothing, some seated with name placards and photos of a robed figure. The right screen shows a woman in white sitting in a room with an orange cloth and framed pictures, beside a placard reading 'WASHINGTON, D.C. SRIPURAM'. Brass lamps and cables sit on the table in the foreground. The people shown are on screens, not physically present.2012-09-13A photograph of a large monitor displaying a video conference grid of many small live feeds, each showing participants seated in home settings. Several feeds show people sitting cross-legged on a sofa or floor in front of framed religious pictures and small lamps with flowers. The grid is part of an online satsang or event; a second screen and video equipment appear at the right edge. Participants wear casual and traditional clothing in mixed colours, and some feeds show orange and white garments. A cable-laden audio panel sits on the desk below the screen. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person.Photo 11730856 +1 copiesA large video wall of a multi-screen display shows a live guru puja streamed from devotees in several locations. Panels show seated devotees in white and coloured clothing before decorated shrines with deity murtis, flowers and kalasha-style offerings. A woman in a white shawl with a red garland sits centrally before a small framed portrait and a platter of flowers. Mats, a pink-and-white striped cloth and a banner reading 'Jai Nithyananda' appear in some panels. The video panels show the images on screens, not physical people in the room; a few people visible in the foreground are partly cut off.A six-panel video call grid of women participants. Top left, a smiling older woman with grey hair and a beaded necklace sits in a room with framed pictures and a decorative plate. Top right, a woman with long dark hair and a bindi wears a white top beside a wall shelf and clock. Centre left, a woman with dark hair in a white top sits against a pale wall. Centre right, an older woman with glasses and a red-orange top and beaded mala presses her palms together in anjali before a shrine table of framed photographs and small offerings; behind her, a seated figure in saffron-orange robes, a crown-like orange turban and a rudraksha mala sits on a cushion, shown as a framed or printed image on the shrine. Bottom left, a woman with pulled-back hair in a light top sits beside a standing figure in orange robes, turban and beaded mala, seemingly a picture or statue. Bottom right, an older woman with glasses wears a white sari with an orange border beside a wooden cabinet.2020-12-08A photograph of a video screen showing a multi-panel grid of remote participants joined together. Top left, people sit in meditation postures on a floor with a placard reading SEATTLE CHIDAMBARAM. Top centre, a group sits in front of a shrine with a placard reading SHRI HARI HARABARBARA. Middle left, a row of people sits on a sofa beside a small altar, one man in white ritual clothes with a shaved head sits to the right of the group, and a placard reads OHIO PRAYAG. Middle right, a couple in casual clothes sits cross-legged on a floor with a placard reading MADRID SPAIN. Lower panels show a deity murti with flowers and a smaller altar, and a woman in orange clothing seated at the lower right. Other panels show additional small groups in home settings.September 10 20122012-09-10 +1 copiesNovember 17 20212021-11-17 +1 copiesA four-panel video call collage of a virtual KAILASA OHIO, USA yoga and Nithya Puja session. Top left, a smiling man in a grey-walled room with a framed portrait on a shelf. Top right, a smiling woman with grey hair, a tilak and blue glasses wears a white top, a teal shawl and beaded malas, sitting before a home altar with a framed image of a saffron-robed, rudraksha-garlanded figure, a deity picture and oil lamps. Bottom left, a group of women and children stand in a living room, one young woman with a bindi holding her palms together in anjali. Bottom right, an older woman in a patterned dark top smiles with palms joined in namaste. The panels show a devotional online gathering; no physical persons count beyond those visible.September 27 20142014-09-27 +1 copies