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A crowded indoor event tent with a white fabric ceiling and blue valance. Dozens of men and women in white shirts and white garments queue and browse along a long table displaying books, booklets, framed pictures and small cards. In the foreground a man in a white shirt with an ID lanyard leans over the table reading a booklet. A woman in a pink sari and a man wearing a garland stand at the table. Ceiling fans and hanging lights are visible, and a banner with a portrait and printed text hangs on the far wall beside other framed prints. No swami or teacher figure is clearly identifiable in the scene.

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A crowded indoor marquee event with white walls and a blue-edged tent roof lit by hanging lamps. Many men and women in white clothes stand and sit at a long table covered with books, booklets and framed pictures, browsing and handling the printed materials. Women wear pink and other saris, some carry shoulder bags, and a man in a grey shirt holds a booklet. Framed sunflower-style prints hang on the back wall beside cloth banners, and plastic chairs line the left side. The scene appears to be a book and literature stall at an organised programme.2007-12-12December 14 20062006-12-14December 14 20072007-12-14February 28 20092009-02-28December 14 20062006-12-14A photograph of a crowded book and literature table at an event hall. Devotees in white kurta-style clothes, several with saffron or orange shawls, crowd around a long table stacked with books, booklets and calendars, many with orange covers. Some people hand over banknotes while others sort through the stacks. A man in a pale pink shirt stands behind the table near the center, and a woman in a white sari with a yellow border works at the table. A wall of white tiles and a colourful framed picture are visible in the background. The scene resembles a person ashram sales counter during a workshop.2009-09-11 +1 copiesA photograph of a book stall inside a white-and-grey tented hall with red drapes along the top edge. Long tables are stacked with rows of paperback and hardcover books with orange, red and brown covers. Women in white saris and white outfits, several with long plaited hair, stand behind the tables handling books and papers. Men in white shirts, a checked blue shirt and a light-coloured shirt browse and talk near the tables, and one man in a white shirt holds up a sheet of paper. A small child sits at the right edge of the table. A framed portrait hangs on the back wall, but its subject is too small and indistinct to describe.2010-01-09A large crowd fills a white tented hall during a Nithyananda Spurana convention session, with many men in white dhotis and shirts and a few in maroon or grey. In the foreground a woman with a hair bun and white sari stands at a table stacked with DVDs and CDs. At the right, an older man in white with an orange shawl and a rudraksha-style necklace looks down. Purple backdrop panels with framed portraits and red flower garlands stand at the upper left. No individual can be confirmed as a person from appearance, so no candidate is identified.2006-12-15A large white tent interior at an event where a crowd of devotees in white dhotis, white shirts and white saris browse tables stacked with books and pamphlets. Several women in saris, one in orange and one in yellow, stand at the front-left, while men in white kurtas and dhotis line the tables. Hanging banners on the left wall carry Tamil text, and colourful woven strips hang nearby. Overhead lights and ceiling fans hang from the white canopy. No individual is clearly identifiable as the a person in this crowded scene.2007-12-14Photograph inside a large white tent with red swag draping along the ceiling edge and red-and-white patterned curtains behind a long white-covered table. Many men and women in white ceremonial clothes stand and browse stacks of books and magazines laid out on the table. In the foreground a woman in a grey-and-cream sari stands at the left edge, and near the right a seated man in a saffron-orange shawl over white dhoti sorts printed material at a plastic chair. Cardboard boxes sit on the green floor mat, and spotlights hang from the tent canopy. The page describes a yoga program, but the image itself shows a book table with books, not a yoga session.2006-11-26A large tented gathering at the a person Spurana Program in Salem, Tamil Nadu, with a long table of blue-and-white boxed books or DVD sets being handled by devotees. In the foreground a woman in a yellow and orange patterned saree examines a box while another woman in a cream-white dhoti-style garment with a dark beaded mala stands behind the table arranging the boxes. Behind them rows of seated attendees in white clothes sit on red plastic chairs under a blue-trimmed canopy, with volunteers in white walking through the aisles and a poster-covered wall in the background. No one on stage is clearly identifiable as a person in this view; the crowd is in the background.2007-12-14Crowded interior of a white tented hall at a multi-day spiritual programme, with a dense crowd of mostly men and women in white shirts, white dhotis and white saris moving among tables. Foreground people browse a table of books and CDs in dark covers. A woman in a light sari with an orange shawl stands at centre, and a man in white with a mala necklace is visible. Blue valance draped along the ceiling, bright ceiling lights, a flat-screen monitor on a stand at right, and panels with printed maps and images on the back wall, with a woven runner in red, orange and blue hanging at right.2007-12-14