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A photograph of an outdoor street signboard mounted on a concrete wall and post, painted in the Indian tricolour bands of saffron orange, white and green with a navy Ashoka chakra wheel at centre. Above the wheel, Tamil text in orange band reads a heading, and beneath it lines of Tamil text and a green lower panel list multiple names in Tamil script. Utility cables run overhead against a blue sky, and a plain whitewashed building and a palm frond sit at the edge. No people are visible.

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A photograph of a green-bordered black signboard set in a dusty open ground with scattered stones. The board is a Tamil-language notice for a 51st Republic Day stone-laying ceremony of the Indian National Congress, dated 26-1-2000, listing names of officials and organisers in white and coloured chalk. Small flag emblems appear in the upper corners. No physical people are visible.2007-03-03Photograph of a building facade in a Tamil Nadu village, showing a blue rectangular signboard with white Tamil lettering set against a teal-painted wall. The sign reads as a Tamil Nadu government rural development and local administration panchayat board plaque with the year 2010-2011, identifying an Anganwadi centre in a village of Kadalur union. A bare tree branch is visible at the upper left under a pale blue sky. No people are present in the scene.2012-01-07A photograph of a concrete village lane lined with palm trees, dense green foliage and a woven palm-frond fence. A shirtless young boy in a red and orange patterned lungi walks barefoot along the concrete path toward the right, while a few distant figures stand farther down the lane. On the left, a green and orange signboard with Tamil script and a blue emblem is mounted on a grey block wall beside a blue-and-green metal pole. Scattered litter lies on the dirt verge, and the sky is partly cloudy.2007-03-03March 03 20072007-03-03January 06 20122012-01-06January 07 20122012-01-07 +1 copiesOutdoor photograph of an orange vinyl banner tied to a pole in a village yard. The banner shows a portrait labelled "Paramahamsa Nithyananda" of a smiling man in an orange turban with a red bindi, wearing orange clothing, with Tamil and English headings for Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam and relief work. Behind it stand a concrete building, a blue-painted house and palm trees; two people are partly visible at the doorway on the right, one in a patterned sari and one small child.2012-01-06A photograph of a street scene in a village courtyard with a small pickup truck decorated with painted flowers and a large orange banner printed with a portrait and Tamil text, labelled with the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam name. Several children and a few adults gather around the truck's rear, and a man in a blue striped shirt and shorts films the scene with a video camera. On the left, a man in a white dhoti and shirt with red border stands with arms folded near the edge of the frame. Two old concrete buildings with signboards in Tamil and a palm tree stand behind, under a pale sky. An orange flag is tied to the truck.2012-01-06A photograph of a yellow-walled village building with a pink top band and a green-framed chalkboard sign on its facade. Painted murals show a girl in a red top and blue skirt beside a doorway, and a woman in a light blue sari guiding a child up steps beside a map-like panel. A rectangular poster is taped over an open window, showing a portrait of a woman in an orange top with a mountain-like background and Tamil text beneath. A bicycle is parked at the right edge and no people are visible in the scene.A painted blue signboard on a wall reads in Tamil script, with a light-blue border, identifying a panchayat union middle school. Below the main name line, smaller white text gives the location as Kalaiyur, Cuddalore district. Wooden doors sit beneath the sign.2012-01-03January 03 20122012-01-03Outdoor photo of a newly inaugurated Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam centre in Tamil Nadu. A large blue signboard with white Tamil lettering is mounted on a white building, partly covered by a saffron-orange cloth draped over its left side. A portrait photograph of a smiling woman with short reddish hair in an orange garment is printed on the board's left portion. Several men in shirts stand in the foreground, including one in a white-and-green striped shirt and an older man with a moustache in the lower right. Schoolboys in white shirts look down from a balcony at upper right, and green trees frame the upper left.2009-08-03