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A crowded outdoor event in front of a thatched-roof structure with a banana-leaf and coloured-cloth decorated entrance arch. Many people, mostly women in saris and salwar kameez, press together, some with flowers in their hair and garlands. A large printed banner above the arch shows a portrait and Tamil text announcing an event, with phone numbers. Decorative umbrellas and a stack of colourful umbrella-like shapes sit beside the crowd. Dusk light, dirt ground, and a few people walking in the background.

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April 19 20082008-04-19A dense crowd of many people gathers outdoors on dirt ground beside a row of posters and banners, with banana leaves hanging overhead. Two decorated umbrellas dominate the foreground: a large one with red, blue and orange panels, bird motifs and the word Dhyanapeetam, and a smaller one with a gold-trimmed canopy. Many devotees wear white, orange and saffron clothing, and several women in orange saris and sarees stand with hands pressed together in namaskar. A young man in a light blue shirt stands at right. On the upper left, a figure in orange robes sits at a raised stage area. Portrait photographs appear on the banners, but no clearly identifiable a person figure is visible among the physical people.2008-04-19A dense crowd fills a festival lane beside a bamboo-and-banana-leaf pavilion during an outdoor event. A tall umbrella-like canopy in orange, green and multicolour with white dove motifs and gold fringe is carried above a procession, and a second decorated parasol with a gold rim stands beside it. Many people in white shirts, saffron and orange saris, and light clothing press forward, some with folded hands. Large printed banners in Tamil line the lane, one showing a framed portrait of a bearded man in orange and a woman with a draped head. A shaved-headed man in white is near the left edge, but no one can be confidently identified from appearance.2008-04-19April 19 20082008-04-19April 19 20082008-04-19Outdoor village scene during a visit, with a crowd of mostly men in white shirts and dhotis pressing forward beside a brick house and thatched roof. A large ornate red, orange and blue umbrella-like canopy with fringe stands at right, above a woman in a pink sari and white-clad devotees. Green mango leaves and banana bunches decorate the scene. Above, a framed portrait labelled "Paramahamsa Nithyananda" shows a smiling saffron-clad figure. Persons in the crowd, including a child held by a man at left, are visible; no clearly identifiable a person figure is present in the frame.2009-08-11Outdoor village gathering under a striped awning with orange streamers and a flagpole, during an event with a crowd of devotees. In the foreground a woman in a yellow-green saree with a yellow blouse stands with hands clasped, and a man in a white shirt with an orange shawl stands at right. Behind them women in colourful sarees and men in white dhotis and shirts stand close together among mud-walled houses with thatched roofs. No a person appearance is clearly visible among the people shown.2009-08-03August 11 20092009-08-11January 01 20092009-01-01April 19 20082008-04-19July 28 20082008-07-28A large outdoor crowd of villagers fills a dusty street in Pattanam, Tamil Nadu, pressing together during a procession. Most people wear white shirts and dhotis or saris in cream, red, pink and yellow; several women wear red and maroon saris with kumkum bindis and gold necklaces, and a bald older man in the foreground wears a white shirt. A young man in the lower left has a yellow tilak on his forehead. Behind them a blue-and-white banner hangs from a pole, showing a painted portrait of a figure in an orange turban and a Tamil caption. Tiled-roof houses, a banana plant and a bamboo flagpole line the background.2008-07-28