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A monitor displays a multi-panel video conference collage of participants joining from different locations. Surrounding panels show small groups seated on floors and sofas, some in white clothes, with puja trays, oil lamps, a ritual fire pit and a framed deity picture in a shrine room. Labels on the screen read ABU-HALIFA KUWAIT and AUSTIA; a lower panel shows a woman in red.

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December 11 20112011-12-11A photograph of a video-conference screen showing a multi-panel live satsang. The large upper panel shows a group seated on the floor in a room with a shrine at the back, where a man in white sits near a centre with an orange-clad figure and a brass lamp. Smaller panels show a woman in a beige shawl labelled ABU-HALIFA KUWAIT, a woman seated before a floral puja arrangement, and a man in a white vest on a pink sofa labelled AUSTIN. Pictured screens contain people who are not counted as physical people in this room.2011-11-29A photograph of a large display screen showing a multi-window video conference. The largest panel shows a group of people in white clothing seated on a floor in front of a shrine with a deity murti and a decorated canopy, with offerings and a sign reading ARUNACHALA TVMALAI. A smaller panel shows two men seated on a sofa in front of a wall sign reading AUS, and another shows a man in a dark shirt and white cap sitting on a green mat before a sign reading ABU-HALIFA KUWAIT. A fourth small panel shows an altar with flowers and offerings. Other people in the scene are not clearly visible apart from the screen images.2011-11-18A flat-screen monitor in a dark room shows a multi-panel collage of video feeds of devotee gatherings. The largest panel shows a seated group in a hall with a shrine and framed images behind them; a woman in a yellow-white sari and a woman in an orange sari sit near a ritual spread of fruit and offerings on a mat, and a red sign reads RUNDA. A smaller panel shows a man in a green shirt beside a sign reading KUWAIT. Another panel shows a man in white seated on a purple patterned mat with offerings. The collage content is pictured on the screen and is not counted as people in the room.2011-12-03December 01 20112011-12-01July 20 20122012-07-20October 24 20122012-10-24A photograph of a large display screen showing a multi-window video satsang. Other panels show seated devotees in white and colourful shawls before shrines with deity murtis, a red-draped altar, and a woman in a dark top and a man in red shawl sitting on mats.2011-02-11A photograph of two wall-mounted screens in a hall. The left screen is a grid of video-conference tiles of seated groups at Aadheenam centres, labelled HOUSTON AADHEENAM, SANTA CRUZ AADHEENAM, VANCOUVER AADHEENAM, SAN JOSE AADHEENAM, OKLAHOMA AADHEENAM, LONDON AADHEENAM and OHIO AADHEENAM, with people in white and colourful clothes sitting in rooms. The right screen shows a speaker in saffron-red robes and a red shawl, with long dark hair, a red crown-like headpiece and a rudraksha mala, seated before an ornate gold throne-backdrop with a microphone in front. The speaker is a depiction on screen and is not counted as physically present.2016-01-16A photograph of a large monitor displaying a multi-panel collage of video stills from temple and ashram gatherings. Several panels show groups of people seated on floors and mats before decorated altars with deity murtis, garlands and flowers. A bottom-centre panel shows a bare-chested man with a white tilak, rudraksha-style garland and a red-patterned backdrop, and a right-hand panel shows a figure in saffron robes seated among offerings. Some panels carry printed city-name signs such as Seattle, Oklahoma Sonnetham and San Jose Madurai. The collage content is screen imagery, so no physical people are counted in the room beyond the handful of people in the scene behind the monitor.2012-09-26A photograph of a flat-screen TV displaying a video-conference grid of satsang participants from multiple locations, labelled Hyderabad Aadheenam, Selayang Malaysia, Karlsruhe Germany, Seremban Sivakasi, Dubai Adheenam, Philadelphia, Playa del Carmen Mexico, Melbourne Australia, Bangalore North, and others. Several panels show groups seated in white and saffron clothing around decorated altars with kalasha, flowers, oil lamps and fruit offerings, while other panels show a woman in red and gold, a man in a white shirt smiling, and a figure in a red and gold ornate seat.2016-01-03February 22 20112011-02-22 +1 copies