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A flat-screen LG television mounted on a dark stand displays a collage of photographs showing protest scenes about banning the Bhagavad Gita. Upper-right panel shows a crowd with red flags and handmade signs reading Save the Holy Scripture and Save the Truth. Lower panels show people holding cardboard signs reading Don't Ban Gita and Stop Ban on Gita, one with a deity mural backdrop and a crowd in a hall. The collage is a graphic of photos rather than a direct photograph of people, so no physical people in the frame are counted beyond the screen content.

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December 26 20112011-12-26A group of devotees stands and kneels in a temple room holding handmade protest placards reading "Gita the holy book of Hindus", "Save the holy scripture", "Save the truth", "Protect Bhagavad Gita" and "Don't ban Bhagavad Gita". A man in a white sweater in the foreground holds the "Don't ban Bhagavad Gita" sign, and a large sign on the floor reads "Toronto Kailaa...". Women wear sarees and salwar in pink, green, yellow and orange. Behind them stand gilded arched shrines with painted deity murtis, including a figure in red and gold on the left, and a dark stone deity murti on the right. A white-clad figure with an orange turban and beaded garland sits in the right foreground beside a brass puja plate.2011-12-26Outdoor protest in Bangalore against a ban on the Bhagavad Gita in Russia. A large orange-and-cream banner shows Lord Krishna in blue with peacock feathers, a crown and garland, sharing a moment with a figure in a garland, and text declaring the Gita a timeless treatise. About a dozen people sit in a row on a paved path holding white placards that spell BHAGAVADGITA one letter each; several wear saffron stoles, white dhotis, kurtas, salwar kameez and saris in blue, pink, red and purple. A smaller poster at upper right shows a smiling man in an orange turban and saffron robes beside Kannada text and a phone number. Another placard reads BHAGAVAD GITA IS FOR YOU, ME, EVERYONE. Trees and a blue building stand behind.2011-12-26December 26 20112011-12-26Photo of a row of monitors in a room with dim lighting. The left screens show a grid of small video tiles of participants and a large screen with a figure in saffron and red robes seated before a microphone. The middle screen shows a white slide with text, and the right screen displays a dense crowd of many seated people in white, blue and colourful clothing. The monitors show an online workshop session with participants.2016-08-28A protest scene before a large orange banner printed with black text reading protest against ban on the Bhagavad Gita in Russia. Several people hold handmade signs: one reads RUSSIA! STOP THE BAN ON THE GITA in black capitals on white, another reads RUSSIA DO NOT BAN BHAGAVAT GITA on light blue. A man on the right wears a white kurta and holds a poster of a smiling man in an orange-saffron turban with a red-and-white sticker, beside a painted Krishna figure. Other protesters in white kurtas and lanyards hold a Spanish flag and a German flag, and a seated man in a tan cap and glasses is in the foreground.2011-12-26December 26 20112011-12-26October 09 20122012-10-09A photograph of a black Philips monitor on a draped reddish-brown table, showing a multi-panel video grid of satsang and pada puja groups from several locations. Top-left panel shows seated devotees in white and colourful clothes around offerings; a woman in pink sits in an ornate white throne-like chair in the bottom-right panel, wearing a pink sari and gold necklace. Panels show devotees seated on mats with plates and flowers, a labelled panel reading SINGAPORE and another reading TORONTO. Another monitor at left and an out-of-focus figure in orange at right are visible. A camera sits on the table in front of the screen.2011-01-23 +1 copiesA 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.2013-04-13August 30 20152015-08-30A photograph of a large screen showing a nine-panel video-conference grid of satsang participants from different centres. Top-left panel labelled SEREMBAN SIVAKASHI shows young women in white and red seated on a mat with a man in a white shirt. Top-centre panel labelled Padapai, Kancheepuram shows a man in a white shirt with an orange-red shawl and a woman in a sari among seated devotees. Middle-left shows a seated group in white clothes on a stage. Middle-centre panel labelled NAGERCOIL shows a woman in an orange top with a bindi and a man in a red shawl. Middle-right panel labelled Tirunelveli Dhyanapeetham shows seated men in white and blue, one holding a handwritten sign. A woman with earphones appears in a far-right panel labelled Nithyananda-Singapore. Bottom row panels show seated devotees in white clothes with rudraksha malas at Coimbatore Dhyanapeetham and Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai, plus a woman in orange at the bottom-left.2014-07-19