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A photograph of a large screen showing a video-conference grid of separate live feeds from different locations. Top-left shows a woman with light blond hair in a red top beside a room with a draped red-and-gold cloth. Top-centre shows people seated on the floor before a table of flowers, fruit and a small lamp, with a man in a white top and a woman in red seated beside it. Top-right shows a seated older man in white in a room with a purple curtain and framed images. Bottom-left shows two women seated in saffron and white near a wall hanging. Bottom-centre shows two women in maroon and green sitting on a striped mat in front of a laptop, with a man in blue seated behind them. Bottom-right shows a woman in a dark shawl seated on a red and patterned rug before framed images of a seated figure in orange. Place labels such as PortWashington, East London UK, OMAN SIVAGANGA, ANNANAGAR - CHENNAI, BANGALORE-MARATHAHALLI and SINGAPORE 1 are printed on the feeds.

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A photograph of a large display screen showing a grid of video-call tiles from remote satsang participants in several cities. Top left, a woman with long blonde hair is labelled Port Washington NY. Top centre, a bald man in a dark red robe sits cross-legged with hands joined beside a flower arrangement, labelled East London UK. Top right, a man in white is labelled Oman Shiva. Bottom left, a man in an orange robe sits with hands joined, labelled Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar. Bottom centre, two women sit on a striped mat, labelled Anna Nagar Chennai. Bottom right, a woman in red sits on a rug, labelled Bangalore. Screen overlays read Port Washington NY, East London UK, Oman Shiva, Vancouver Bhuvaneshwar, Anna Nagar Chennai and Bangalore. Visible physical people are seated in home settings.2013-07-13July 29 20132013-07-29A photograph of a large screen showing a video-conference grid of satsang participants from many locations, each labelled with a caption such as "PORT WASHINGTON NY", "Guadeloupe Rameshwaram", "SINGAPORE SINGAPURAM", "VANCOUVER PURI", "LONDON - KA..." and "CHARLOTTE-SRISAILAM". Tiles show people seated or standing in home and temple rooms: a woman in orange sits on a chair in one tile, a woman in white and a woman in purple sit together on a bed in another, and a woman in red and white performs a puja before a framed photograph with a marigold garland. Several tiles show empty rooms and deity shrines.2013-04-13 +1 copiesJuly 29 20132013-07-29July 29 20132013-07-29A 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.2013-11-06September 23 20132013-09-23August 03 20132013-08-03A large video-conference grid displayed on a screen, showing a collage of many small live panels of people in home and ashram settings, labelled with handwritten or printed place signs such as Washington D.C. Sripuram, Guadeloupe, New Jersey, Vancouver Home, Houston North-West, Bangalore Whitefield, Brockley London, Turkey, St. Louis, Arunachala Tiruvannamalai and Anna Nagar. Many participants sit cross-legged on mats in saffron, orange, red and green clothes, some with ritual red and white markings, around puja items and flowers. In the bottom right panel, a man with a shaved head and saffron-orange robes with a gold necklace sits before a golden backdrop, with a rudraksha mala. This is a photograph of a screen showing a collage, so the physical people count refers only to people in the room, which is effectively none visible apart from a partial garment edge.2012-09-05A 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.2013-07-30September 29 20132013-09-29April 13 20132013-04-13 +1 copies