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A newspaper clipping, scanned and framed by a dark border, headlined "Sex, lies and videotape" with a smaller headline "Scandal triggers mob fury" and "Godman after TV". A large red stamp reads FAKE across the top. The main photo shows the charred remains of a structure with blackened debris and a burnt vehicle or frame, captioned "After effects: the remains of a kutteer in Swami Nityananda's Ashram at Bidadi near Bangalore on Wednesday." Dense body text in columns surrounds the photo, with a byline "M R Venkatesh" and a sidebar of smaller articles. No people are visible in the image.

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March 03 20192019-03-03February 21 20192019-02-21 +1 copiesA graphic collage of newspaper clippings documenting the Tiruvannamalai Aadheenam attacks and media coverage. The top-left clipping is a Deccan Chronicle article headlined "Ashram lashes out at Sun TV" beneath a Reporter's Notebook banner. The centre clipping, headed "Security beefed up at T'malai", shows a photo of a grey-uniformed police presence and text about police deployment. Below it, a clipping headed "Forest officials raid Tiruvannamalai ashram" from the New Indian Express. The right clipping, headed "Party at Tiruvannamalai; godman's grandma in shock", carries a photo of a building and printed text. Captions beneath read News Articles: Newspaper Coverage of Vandalism of the Property, English Daily Deccan Chronicle On 4 March 2010, English Daily New Indian Express On 6 March 2010, and Hate speech on His Divine Holiness and the ASMT community activities in the Tiruvannamalai property. No physical people are shown.PavalaKundru PersecutionA presentation slide titled "Incident: Forced to Destroy Evidence and Religious Heritage" with a header reading Location: Malaysia and Date: Post March 2, 2010. The left column holds a block of description text under the heading Description. The right column, labelled Photos, shows a cropped newspaper clipping from the DNA Newspaper published in India, headlined "Malay ashram to help in Nithya probe," with a caption identifying the source. The slide carries the number 15.5 in the lower right corner. No people are visible.March 03 20192019-03-03 +1 copiesA presentation slide titled Madurai Aadheenam Attacks under a Media Defamation heading, showing newspaper clippings. On the left is an English daily clipping headlined 'Nithya to head ancient mutt in TN' with a Deccan Herald date line. On the right is a Tamil newspaper clipping with a central photograph of a bearded man in a white and gold-trimmed garment with a crown-like headdress, flanked by printed Tamil columns. The slide carries a location and date header and a footer caption about the 29th Pontiff's press statement.A scanned court or legal document page titled Incident: Tiruvannamalai Adheenam Attacks, with location and date headers and a Photos heading at the top. The page is dense black printed text in justified paragraphs with numbered paragraphs, including references to the HR&CE Act and the Tiruvannamalai Aadheenam. Thumbnail-style slide captions appear along the top edge. No people are visible; the image is a text-only scan with a small page number in the lower right corner.A slide-style graphic in a red-bordered frame with a two-column layout: a text panel titled Description on the left and a Photos panel on the right holding a four-picture collage of small photographs. The top-left photo shows a blurred figure in red and dark clothing near foliage. The top-right photo shows a man in white clothing standing beside a wall with posters. The bottom-left photo shows several people in dark clothing in a night setting. The bottom-right photo shows a crowd near a red-lit wall. A caption beneath the collage reads Vandalism Of Property. The left text panel contains a narrative account of an incident at Tiruvannamalai Aadheenam, dated 2 March, 2010, with quoted speech and a description of a ladle and a bucket of tamarind rice.Tiruvannamalai Aadheenam PersecutionA presentation slide with a text-heavy description panel on the left, headed Location India and Date November 27, 2015, under the title Incident #18: 2nd Near Fatal Attack on Two Male Sannyasis. On the right, a bold italic caption reads that media reports falsely portray the monks as criminals. Below it is a small video still of a crowd of people in white clothes pressing around a scene, with a man in white raising an arm among onlookers and a green and red banner behind them. The frame is a graphic slide with a photographic inset, showing no clearly identifiable figure of the kind described.PavalaKundru Persecution