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October 18 2012

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October 18 20122012-10-18July 25 20092009-07-25A seated group of devotees performs a puja in a plain room with pale green walls. On a white-draped table stands a framed photograph of a man with long hair in an orange robe, garlanded with red and white flowers and labelled "PARA...NANDA" on the frame. Two brass oil lamps flank the portrait, and rose petals and marigolds lie before it. In front, a woman in a white sari with pink border offers flowers over a plate of fruit, bananas and a tray of petals. Several seated women in white saris and a man in white clothing with a pendant and a child in striped shirt sit on mats around the offerings. A wall display shelf above holds small framed photographs.July 25 20092009-07-25A small home room with mint-green walls where a group of devotees sit on the floor in a satsang or puja gathering. On the right, a woman in a white sari with a red-pink border and a black bead mala speaks while others listen. A man in white shirt and dhoti with a dark mala sits at left beside two women in white saris. On a white-draped table in the center stands a large framed portrait of a man in orange robes wearing a floral garland, with brass oil lamps lit on either side and marigold and rose petals scattered before it. Trays hold fruit, flowers and offerings, and a flower-garlanded plate sits on a mat in front. A television and shelves of framed photographs fill the background.July 25 20092009-07-25A small room with a plain concrete wall hung with posters, a wall clock and a framed certificate. Three people sit on a mat in white clothes with hands pressed together in prayer: a man in a white shirt and dhoti at left, a woman in white at centre, and a woman with a long braid in white with an orange border at right. In front of them lie brass plates with flowers, a brass oil lamp, a silver dish, bananas, incense sticks and a silver vessel. On a wooden table at right stands a framed image of a seated figure in a golden throne wearing white and gold, beside an orange cloth, red apples and flower garlands. A framed portrait of a smiling man in orange cloth hangs on the wall at upper left, and a poster is labelled with the date 2006.A seated puja in a small room with white walls. A young man in white clothes sits cross-legged with palms pressed together in namaskar, facing a white-draped seat on which an orange cloth bundle rests, with an orange cloth hanging down the front and a feather fan tucked behind it. A framed image above the seat is decorated with red and yellow flower garlands. Before them lie brass plates of flowers, fruit, sweets, oil lamps and a silver bowl. A woman in white with a rudraksha-style necklace holds a brass vessel at the right, and a woman in white sits at the left with hands folded. A woman in an orange and white sari with a dark mala at the far left and a woman in green at the lower right also sit on the floor mat, with oranges and pink flowers in trays in the foreground.March 31 20132013-03-31A photograph of a padapuja in a small room with patterned wallpaper and a round wooden sun-like decoration on the wall. Before him on a blue and yellow cloth are fruit, sweets, banana leaves, brass vessels and a tray of offerings. Around him devotees in white and cream clothes sit with palms pressed together, including a man with glasses, a woman in a yellow sari with a braid, a woman in a cream sari and a child in red. A young man in white with a yellow shawl sits at the lower right with hands folded, and a child sits with a bag of fruit nearby.2009-07-25November 05 20102010-11-05A small indoor room with a plain plaster wall and tiled floor shows three people in white ritual clothes seated on mats for a puja. A man in a white checked shirt and white dhoti pours liquid from a small silver vessel over a tray of magenta and yellow flowers. A woman in a white sari with an orange border sits in the foreground with a long braid, and another woman in white sits behind. Brass lamps, a silver bowl, a plate of bananas and apples, and a newspaper lie on the floor. On a wooden desk stands a framed photograph of a seated figure on an ornate golden throne wearing white and gold robes, flanked by orange cloth and apples with marigold garlands. A printed sheet with a dense Tamil text is pinned on the wall.