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A photograph of a large screen showing a video-conference grid of satsang participants from many locations, each labelled with a caption such as "PORT WASHINGTON NY", "Guadeloupe Rameshwaram", "SINGAPORE SINGAPURAM", "VANCOUVER PURI", "LONDON - KA..." and "CHARLOTTE-SRISAILAM". Tiles show people seated or standing in home and temple rooms: a woman in orange sits on a chair in one tile, a woman in white and a woman in purple sit together on a bed in another, and a woman in red and white performs a puja before a framed photograph with a marigold garland. Several tiles show empty rooms and deity shrines.

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April 11 20132013-04-11May 03 20132013-05-03April 13 20132013-04-13 +1 copiesA photograph of a large display screen showing a grid of video-call tiles from remote satsang participants in several cities. Top left, a woman with long blonde hair is labelled Port Washington NY. Top centre, a bald man in a dark red robe sits cross-legged with hands joined beside a flower arrangement, labelled East London UK. Top right, a man in white is labelled Oman Shiva. Bottom left, a man in an orange robe sits with hands joined, labelled Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar. Bottom centre, two women sit on a striped mat, labelled Anna Nagar Chennai. Bottom right, a woman in red sits on a rug, labelled Bangalore. Screen overlays read Port Washington NY, East London UK, Oman Shiva, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, Anna Nagar Chennai and Bangalore. Visible physical people are seated in home settings.2013-07-13A photograph of a large monitor displaying a video-conference grid of many small live feeds from different locations, labelled with captions such as SINGAPORE SINGAPURAM, VANCOUVER PURI, BENGALURU NORTH, CHARLOTTE SRISAILAM and LONDON - KASHI. One feed shows a woman in orange and red clothing with an orange flower garland, seated before a framed portrait and a tray of offerings. Other feeds show small groups of people sitting indoors, some in a room with a red and white decorated altar, and a few blurred figures. The screen is seen at an angle beside a dark frame.2013-04-13July 07 20122012-07-07May 08 20132013-05-08A photograph of a large display screen showing a grid of video-conference tiles from devotees in different locations, each labelled with a place name such as Port Washington, Devon UK, Hyderabad, Singapore-Singapuram, San Jose-Madurai, Hong Kong-Sirkazhi, New York-Varanasi, Bogota-Colombia, Bangalore North, Dubai and Oman-Sivagangai. In the tiles, people sit on floors and sofas in home shrine rooms, some performing puja before deity images, lamps and offerings, one woman in a red sari, another in a white sari and others in ordinary clothes. Some tiles show a seated man in a red shirt speaking and a man in white ritual clothes performing a puja. The screen is a live remote satsang broadcast, and the people shown are on screens, not physically present in the room.2013-11-06A photograph of a large monitor displaying a multi-panel video conference grid of satsang participants in different locations. Top-left panel labelled "DUBAI-THIRUKOVILUR" shows a woman in dark clothing beside a shrine. Top-centre panel labelled "Guadeloupe-Rameshwaram" shows people seated on folding chairs near a table with a floral arrangement. Top-right panel labelled "Vancouver-Puri" shows a woman in a pink top seated on a sofa. Middle-left panel labelled "HYDERABAD SRI" and "Ramanasri" shows two women seated on a pink cushioned sofa. Centre panel labelled "SINGAPORE SINGAPURAM" shows people seated on a yellow patterned mat with ritual items. Middle-right panel labelled "CHARLOTTE-SRISAILAM" shows a man in white clothing seated before a decorated shrine and a woman in red beside him. Bottom-centre panel labelled "New York Varanasi" shows a room with ritual mats and a small altar. Bottom-right panel shows a deity image with a seated figure on an ornate throne. Bottom-left panel shows a woman looking down in a room with bookshelves.2013-05-02A photograph of a large monitor displaying a video conference grid of many small live feeds from different locations, each labelled with a place name. Feeds show groups of people seated in homes and centres: a woman in orange and a man in white at a table with flowers, a group in white seated on the floor, a man in an orange shawl in Bengaluru North, and a bald man in white with a mala and a woman in white with a mala in Port Washington NY. Labels include Singapore Singapuram, San Diego Tsru Alavi, New York Varanasi, Bengaluru North, Port Washington NY and Sri Julien Pranam. Visible people in the screens are part of the feeds, not physical people in the room.2013-04-14October 24 20122012-10-24A large video-conference grid displayed on a screen, showing a collage of many small live panels of people in home and ashram settings, labelled with handwritten or printed place signs such as Washington D.C. Sripuram, Guadeloupe, New Jersey, Vancouver Home, Houston North-West, Bangalore Whitefield, Brockley London, Turkey, St. Louis, Arunachala Tiruvannamalai and Anna Nagar. Many participants sit cross-legged on mats in saffron, orange, red and green clothes, some with ritual red and white markings, around puja items and flowers. In the bottom right panel, a man with a shaved head and saffron-orange robes with a gold necklace sits before a golden backdrop, with a rudraksha mala. This is a photograph of a screen showing a collage, so the physical people count refers only to people in the room, which is effectively none visible apart from a partial garment edge.2012-09-05