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A photograph of a large monitor showing a grid of live video-conference feeds from multiple locations. Top left, two women in a home setting with a child seated on a white sofa area; top right, a woman in a blue outfit in a room labelled Devon UK. Centre, a bald man in an orange robe sits on a brown sofa with purple cushions, labelled East London UK, appearing as an appearance-based a person on screen. Left, a space with a red-draped table and marigold-like offerings labelled Singapore Singapuram. Right, a woman labelled Hong Kong Sirkazhi. Bottom right, a framed portrait of a smiling man in an orange turban and robe, set in a gold ornate frame with a decorative arch, shown on screen; bottom centre, a seated woman in red and white near a shelf and altar.

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October 31 20132013-10-31A multi-panel video-conference screen shows several small live feeds of devotees in different locations, labelled with place names such as Singapore Singapuram, East London UK, Devon UK, Fort Washington NY, Hong Kong Sirkazhi, Jefferson South Dakota and Vancouver Bhuvanesh. Some participants press palms together in anjali, one woman in white sits with hands folded, and a home shrine shows a framed portrait of a figure in orange robes and an orange turban, smiling, labelled Self View. The bottom-right panel shows a gilded frame holding that orange-clad portrait, displayed like a shrine. The image is a photograph of a screen, and the participants are shown on the screen rather than physically present.2013-07-30October 07 20132013-10-07A screen grid of six video-conference tiles showing satsang participants in different cities, labelled SINGAPORE SINGAPURAM, Hyderabad Guptakashi, EAST LONDON UK, HONG KONG - SIRKAZHI, Devon UK, and Self View. The Singapore tile shows several people sitting on patterned mats in a room with a small altar. The Hyderabad tile shows a girl in white uniform and a woman standing beside a bed, with a hand-written sign. The East London tile shows two people seated on a sofa in white clothing. A woman in a dark top is in the Hong Kong tile beside a framed photo. In the Devon tile two people sit on a sofa. In the Self View tile a framed portrait of a smiling man with a saffron-orange turban is set within a gold ornate frame with bells, on an altar. The portrait is a depiction, not a physical person in the room.2013-09-24September 23 20132013-09-23September 25 20132013-09-25November 12 20132013-11-12A photograph of a large video-conference wall display showing a grid of live feeds from satsang groups in different locations. Top-left tile shows a room with a deity altar labelled St Louis-Tirumala. Top-middle tile shows a room with a seated devotee in white and an orange-clad figure, labelled East-London-UK. Left tiles show DEVON, UK with a woman seated on a sofa, and HONG KONG - SIRKAZHI with a woman speaking to camera beside a framed portrait labelled Hong Kong-Sirkazhi. A tile labelled SINGAPORE SINGAPURAM shows people seated on a mat before an altar, and ATLANTA UJJAINI shows seated devotees in white. Lower tiles show SAN DIEGO TIRU ALAVAI, MONTERREY-Kedarnath with seated men in white, VANCOUVER BHUVANESHWAR, and Bangalore Sangha with a man in a red shawl. In the lower-right corner a large gilded frame holds a portrait of a smiling figure in an orange turban and orange robe.2013-07-20May 03 20132013-05-03September 12 20132013-09-12A photograph of a large display screen showing a grid of video-conference tiles from devotees in different locations, each labelled with a place name such as Port Washington, Devon UK, Hyderabad, Singapore-Singapuram, San Jose-Madurai, Hong Kong-Sirkazhi, New York-Varanasi, Bogota-Colombia, Bangalore North, Dubai and Oman-Sivagangai. In the tiles, people sit on floors and sofas in home shrine rooms, some performing puja before deity images, lamps and offerings, one woman in a red sari, another in a white sari and others in ordinary clothes. Some tiles show a seated man in a red shirt speaking and a man in white ritual clothes performing a puja. The screen is a live remote satsang broadcast, and the people shown are on screens, not physically present in the room.2013-11-06A photograph of a multi-panel video conference grid of satsang participants in different cities. Top-left panel shows a woman seated on a pink-draped bed beside a sign reading Hyderabad Guptakashi. Top-middle shows a woman in a dark jacket seated on a floor cushion labelled Devon, UK. Top-right shows a seated woman in orange and a blond woman in white in a room with a framed portrait labelled San Diego Tiru Alavai. Middle-left shows a group seated on red mats labelled Singapore Singapuram with a woman in pink and a man in white. Middle-centre shows a man in white kurta seated with a woman in blue beside a labelled Houston-Umesh. Middle-right shows people on a white floor labelled New York Varanasi. Bottom-left shows a man in white with a tilak seated before an altar with a lit lamp and a portrait. Bottom-centre shows a woman in white labelled Bogota-Colombia. Bottom-right shows a framed portrait of a smiling figure in orange head wrap and ornate gold frame labelled Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam.2013-10-13