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A crowded indoor hall with red and white draped backdrops and a pale green wall. Many people in white shirts, saris and salwar kameez move among large framed portrait banners. The foreground banners show a man in a white turban with long hair, one with a long white garment; a banner high on the upper wall shows a man in a white turban and dark embroidered top. Banners read 'Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda' and 'Dhyanapeetam'. Visitors stand before the banners and some look toward a stage area.

Night photograph of a crowd gathered in front of a large outdoor banner. The banner shows two portraits: a smiling man with palms pressed together in namaste, wearing an orange turban, orange shawl and beaded necklaces, and a smiling man in a white turban. Tamil text sits between them. Crowd members in the foreground include young men in white and checked shirts, a woman in a green sari with braided hair decorated with white and orange flowers, and a man in white kurta with an orange shawl at right. Dark trees surround the scene. Visible text reads a Tamil poem and 'Dhyanam' (meditation) with a Puducherry phone number.

Night-time outdoor crowd gathered in front of a white tent at a Tamil Nadu ashram event. A very large orange-toned banner portrait on the right shows a smiling man wearing an orange turban with a red bindi, shaded in warm orange. The banner's appearance is a depiction on a poster; no identity is asserted from the face. Dozens of devotees stand close together, many in white shirts and white dhotis, a woman in a yellow-orange sari with a white flower in her hair, and an older woman in a pink-red sari at the left. A red and white banner at left carries Tamil text. Dark night sky, bamboo poles, and strings of decorative red, purple, and green fabric bunting frame the scene.

A photograph inside a plain room showing a queue of people at a display table. A large banner on the right shows a smiling man with an orange-red turban and a red-orange bindi, with Kannada-style script partly visible at the bottom. The display wall beside it is covered with many small framed photos and cards with string lights. Several people in white clothes with yellow shawls stand at the table, one holding a phone. Visitors in white, green and cream saris, a man in a checked shirt, and a woman in white stand in line. An orange curtain and white plastic chairs are at the left edge.

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A photograph of an event crowd gathered before a large backdrop of a smiling man in an orange turban with a red tilak on his forehead, with Kannada script beside him. The backdrop wall is covered with rows of printed book covers showing the same man, with string lights strung across the top. In the foreground, several women in white clothes and dark braids stand close together, one in a pink top, and a woman in a green-bordered sari with an ID badge stands at right. Men in white shirts and a man in a cream kurta and yellow shirt stand among them, some looking at the wall.

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Outdoor evening gathering under a white tent decorated with star-shaped streamers and tinsel. A seated figure in saffron-orange robes with an orange turban and long hair sits on a red-carpeted platform, with a bearded man in white and an orange shawl beside him. Around them, several men in white shirts and orange shawls stand, and a young boy in orange kneels nearby. Women in saris, one in pink and one in blue-green, sit on the platform facing the seated figure. A large banner behind them shows portrait photos and Tamil text. A white-shirted crowd fills the foreground, one man wearing a Dhyanapeetam shirt. A white podium with a microphone and a black board with Tamil text stand at the right.

A large orange-and-black banner portrait of a man in an orange turban with a red tilak, wearing a long gold-beaded rudraksha necklace, hangs behind the stage. In front, a man in an orange robe with a white flower garland stands on a white-covered platform with a bowing woman in a pale blue top and yellow sari beside him. A man in a white shirt with a rudraksha mala stands at left, and a woman in a green sari watches. A woman in an orange top with a white stripe stands at right. Tamil text on the banner reads Paramahamsa Nithyananda. a person: the standing figure in orange robe, orange turban and garland is a candidate, but the appearance is uncertain.

A large crowd of men and young people stands under a white tent canopy trimmed with yellow and green bunting at an outdoor Nithyananda Spurna Program session. Many wear white shirts and dhotis, while others wear colourful checked and patterned shirts. On a stage at the back, a speaker stands at a microphone between two large black-and-white portrait banners of a bearded man, with a central banner and rows of smaller framed portraits lining the tent poles. Saffron-clad women sit among the crowd at left. Several people are visible in the foreground, and the scene is dense with spectators filling the tent.