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Indoor festival scene with a performer in an elaborate golden crown with flame-like red and yellow spikes, face painted orange with white markings, wearing a green and gold costume, a yellow beaded garland and white skull ornaments. Raised red arms with golden bands extend behind. A man in glasses and a lavender striped shirt reaches toward the figure, while a woman in a red-orange saree with a black bead necklace and gold bangles speaks beside them. Onlookers stand behind in white and orange tones under a white tent ceiling.2016-05-01August 20 20062006-08-20A festive procession inside a white tented pavilion hung with colourful paper streamers. At the centre, a performer in a costume of a fierce red deity with multiple red arms, a gold crown with flame-like rays, a protruding red tongue, a skull garland and a yellow bead mala stands among a crowd. Nearby, a man in an orange shawl and lavender shirt walks at the front, a bearded attendant in white holds a silver trident, and a woman in a green and gold outfit on the right claps and smiles. An orange ornamental umbrella and a decorated pink headdress appear at the top of the frame, with a crowd of devotees and attendants in orange and white behind them.2016-05-01Photograph of a man in white kurta with a rudraksha mala and red bindi, hands pressed together in reverent offering, standing before a flower-decorated seat. Behind him to the left, a shaved-headed priest in orange cloth with a white forehead tilak stands near a column hung with white and red garlands. On the right, a figure in orange-brown robes wearing a crown, ornate gold necklaces, long red and white flower garlands and bangles, with hands raised, appears to be a probable Swamiji depicted in person, seated before a large arch of yellow, red, white and purple flowers topped with a gold ornament. A partially visible person's head is at the lower right.2013-07-22May 01 20162016-05-01A photograph of a seated man on an ornate gold throne with a tiger-striped cloth and red bolsters, wearing an orange-brown turban, a rust-coloured robe with gold border, and a beaded brown and gold necklace. He smiles while adjusting an orange shawl. Beside him stands a performer in a deity-style costume with bright orange-red face paint, a gold crown with red flame-like headpiece, a skull garland and a gold and red ornamented costume, holding a silver trident. Red multi-armed props and a golden lion figure are behind them. Visible text in the lower right reads Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam2016-05-01A staged ritual-drama scene in a temple-like hall with warm red and golden lighting. On the left, a man with glasses wears a white kurta and a red-orange shawl, holding a folded paper and looking toward the right. On the right, a figure in a pink-red garment with an orange wrap wears a long rudraksha mala, a gold necklace, bangles, a forehead tilak and a jewelled headpiece, and holds a curved sword raised upward in one hand and a staff hung with bells in the other. Behind them stand a golden arch, a gilded deity murti and a golden trident, forming an ornate altar setting.2017-08-13A photograph of a dim tent-like hall where a person in a saffron-orange turban and bare upper body, adorned with a white and red flower garland, stands at left facing right toward a young man in orange with a gold-chained rudraksha-style necklace. Behind them, two men in polo shirts and a shirtless devotee in orange cloth look on, and at right a golden trident (trishul) is held upright beside a devotee with a rudraksha mala. A gold-framed edge and small hanging decorations are visible at the top. The scene suggests a darshan or ritual gathering, with several onlookers watching the exchange.2016-04-29October 28 20142014-10-28A photograph of a temple-style hall with a brightly painted deity murti in the background, showing a figure with a flame-like crown holding a weapon. In the foreground, a man in a light blue collared shirt holds a coconut halfway wrapped in fibre, facing a man in a white shirt who reaches toward it. To the right, a woman in a dark green sari with gold border and rudraksha-style beads stands near a red-draped seat. Two attendants in saffron-orange robes with rudraksha malas stand at left and right, one holding a decorated umbrella overhead. Gold-trimmed ceremonial umbrellas and a red and gold seat are arranged around the scene.2017-03-26September 11 20152015-09-11June 21 20172017-06-21 +1 copies