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December 13 2012

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October 19 20062006-10-19A photograph of a seated congregation indoors on a woven mat, with white pillars and a tiled floor behind them. Many devotees sit in rows watching toward the front, most with hands folded or attentive expressions. Women wear saris and salwar kameez in green, lime-green, yellow, pink and orange-checked prints; several men wear white shirts and glasses, and children in blue and yellow sit among them. No speaker or deity is visible in the frame. The scene looks like a satsang or darshan gathering.2004 - sacred collections uncategorisedA large outdoor gathering seated under a striped canopy at the Kanchipuram ashram inauguration. In the foreground, a woman in a cream sari with green border and a black handbag sits beside an elderly woman in a mustard-yellow sari. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti, with gold bangles and a red wrist thread, sits with hands clasped next to a young woman in white with a rudraksha-style mala. At right a woman wears an orange-and-white sari with gold necklace. Rows of devotees fill the background under colourful draped fabric and pillars, with a speaker box visible at right. No robed or crowned figure is clearly identifiable among those shown.2006-11-24November 27 20122012-11-27 +1 copiesA large seated audience fills a bright hall with red plastic chairs, packed rows of people watching toward the front. In the foreground, five men sit in a row: at left an older man in a white shirt and white dhoti, next a man in a blue shirt and dark trousers, then a man in a maroon-and-saffron robe with a saffron dhoti and a rudraksha-style mala, beside him a man in white shirt and white dhoti, and at right a man in a patterned white shirt and white dhoti. Behind them women in saris and salwar and children fill the rows, with string lights and a window visible at the back of the hall.January 12 20072007-01-12November 24 20082008-11-24A large outdoor gathering under a tent with a patterned red and orange canopy and strings of triangular pennants. Rows of red plastic chairs are filled with a seated audience of men and women in saris, salwar and shirts, many with jasmine flowers in their hair. A projection screen and cloth-draped stage are visible at the back, with speakers on the poles. The audience appears to be listening to a talk or programme. No speaker is clearly identifiable in the frame.November 24 20082008-11-24January 12 20072007-01-12December 27 20162016-12-27