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A 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.

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