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Photograph of the gated entrance to Nithyananda Peetham Tiruvannamalai Aadheenam in Tamil Nadu. A large red-framed banner on the left shows a bearded figure in saffron-orange robes with a white garland and a red turban-like headdress, seated before a red background. A red boundary wall carries a banner reading Nithyananda Peetham and a red-ochre sign for Nithyananda Gurukul, Vedic Spiritual Education Center, which shows another figure with a red headdress and rudraksha-style beads. Several parked motorcycles, a white van and a purple car stand in the dirt courtyard. A man in a white shirt and dhoti walks away from the camera with a backpack, a man in a blue shirt stands near the cars, a figure in orange robes stands near the gate, and two uniformed men sit on the wall at right. Green floor matting leads toward the gate and a rocky hill rises in the background.