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Slide-style graphic with a header reading "Location: Thondai Mandala Adheenam, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India" and "Date: Jul 30, 2017", titled "ASMT community members Trapped: Attempt-to-Murder". Left column holds a block of Description text criticising media coverage. Right column shows Media Coverage: two photographs of an Adheenam building with parked cars and a seated saffron-robed bearded man with a rudraksha mala, plus a scanned Tamil-language tabloid page with a magenta banner. The slide number 15.18 appears at lower right. No physical people are present in the graphic itself.

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A presentation slide titled "ASMT community members Trapped: Attempt-to-Murder" with a two-column layout. The left column holds a dense black-and-white text description headed "Description" about an incident at the Thondai Mandala Aadheenam in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, dated Jul 30, 2017. The right column is labelled "Photos" and is empty. A header bar lists Location and Date, and the slide number 15.11 appears in the bottom right corner. No people are shown.Malaysia Aadheenam PersecutionThis is a screenshot of a web page titled Tiruvannamalai Adheenam Attacks, with a left-hand description column and a right-hand Photos panel showing two video stills. The upper still shows a red-walled compound with posters and a green-roofed building, where saffron-robed monks and several men in white and dark shirts stand near parked scooters and a crowd gathers. The lower still, captioned Incited hatred turns into violent physical attack, shows a scuffle in a dusty yard: a man in white is grabbed and struck while saffron-robed monks and onlookers surround him, and a man in a red shirt is visible at right.A graphic slide with a two-column layout headed "Location: Thondai Mandala Adheenam, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India" and dated July 5, 2017, titled "Assault and death threats to ASMT members in Kanchipuram". The left panel, labelled Description, shows a photographed threatening letter in Tamil script with a small portrait photo and a caption; the right panel, labelled Complaint(s) filed with Police, shows a scanned typed letter addressed to the Inspector of the Kanchipuram police station, with a handwritten signature. A yellow caption bar at bottom left gives an English translation of the threat. No people are visible in the graphic.A slide-style document titled Thondai Mandala Aadheenam Persecution, presented as a table with a dark header bar. The left column is headed Description and contains a block of black printed text alleging attacks on Thondaimandalam Aadheenam and its Guru Mahasannidhanam by militant groups, with a mention of a person. The right column headed Photos is empty. Top bar lists location Thondai Mandala Adheenam, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu India and date Nov 24, 2017. Slide number 15.27 appears in the bottom right corner.A slide-style document titled with Location Malaysia and Date Ever since 2010, labelled Incident: Harbour of Hate by Media. The left column holds a Description paragraph of typed English text about media allegations against a spiritual leader and the ASMT community. The right column, under Photos, shows a small newspaper clipping in Tamil script with a portrait of a man in orange robes with long hair and a garland-like adornment, beside columns of printed text and a headline. The slide carries the number 15.19 and page 6 in the bottom right.A screenshot-style infographic page from the archive. The top bar reads Location: Adi Nithyananda Peetam, Pavazhakundur, Tiruvannamalai and Date: 22 June, 2017. The header reads Incident: Pavala Kundru - The Sacred Hillock, with a two-column layout of Description text on the left and Photos on the right. Three stacked news-broadcast screenshots on the right show uniformed police officers, a white van, and a woman in a red sari beside people in red and white clothing, with orange captions beneath. The left text describes an arrest of sannyasis at the site. The caption at lower right reads Illegal arrest of Female sannyasi at Pavazha Kundru.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.A graphic incident slide titled Incident: Madurai Aadheenam Attacks, with Location and Date fields and a two-column layout: a Description text block on the left and a Photos panel on the right. The top photo shows two saffron-robed sannyasis seated inside a police station behind a window with a brick wall, one holding a pink cloth. Below left is a building facade with a red cross sign where the sannyasis were admitted to hospital. Below right, saffron-robed monks stand among uniformed police officers outdoors. The caption reads that police are seen with His Divine Holiness after the attack. Page number 14.12.2 appears in the corner.Ancient Monasteries PersecutionA scanned text slide titled ASMT community members Trapped: Attempt-to-Murder, with a Location line reading Thondai Mandala Adheenam, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India and a Date of Jul 30, 2017. The slide has a two-column layout with a Description column of paragraphs and an empty Photos column on the right. The narrative describes attackers trying to break a wooden double door, a phone call to a secretary, disciples hidden under towels without water or food for 15 hours, and armed men patrolling until 6:00 am. Page number 15.14 appears in the bottom right corner. No physical people are shown.