Four men sit on gold-framed ornate chairs behind a long white draped table decorated with white jasmine garlands and orange-yellow marigold swags, on a red carpet. At left, a man in white shirt and trousers reads papers; beside him a man in white shirt does the same. In the centre, a monk in saffron-orange robes and an orange turban looks at a small device. At right, a bearded man in saffron robes with long hair holds papers, and another saffron-robed bearded man beside him reads. Water bottles and a microphone stand on the table. Behind the platform, a banner shows four framed portrait photos above Kannada text reading an event title with 2006 and 31st December, and a Nithyananda Dhyanapeetham logo. Portraits: a saffron-robed man, a bearded man in saffron, a smiling older man in white, a man with a moustache in white, and a man in purple shirt, shown on the banner rather than physically present. a person candidate appearance cues on the stage are uncertain.