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Photograph of an indoor hall with pale blue walls, a row of ceiling fans and strings of multicoloured pennant flags. Rows of orange plastic chairs face a small table with printed material at left, where three women in saris sit facing the audience. Roughly twenty-five seated attendees, mostly adults with a few children, watch the presenters; a man in a white shirt and dhoti sits at right and a young child in a striped shirt sits near the centre.

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Photograph of an audience seated on orange plastic chairs in a turquoise-walled hall with ceiling fans and a strip of multicoloured bunting. Rows of attendees face forward: men in checked shirts, white shirts and a red polo, women in sarees and salwar kameez in yellow, orange and blue, and two young children seated in front. A water bottle sits on the floor at right. No speaker or stage is visible in the frame, and no one in the scene is identified.A large hall filled with rows of seated people on yellow plastic chairs, facing away from the camera toward a front area that is out of frame. Most attendees are women in colourful saris and salwar kameez in pink, green, blue, maroon and turquoise, with a few men in white shirts and dark trousers at the right side. A child in white sits near the left front row. Yellow guide lines mark the grey concrete floor, and wall windows and open doorways with a few standing figures in the background light the room.A wide photograph of a large indoor hall packed with seated devotees on white and green plastic chairs, facing toward the front of the room. Rows of people fill the foreground and stretch back to a standing crowd at the far end under fluorescent ceiling lights. Women wear cotton and silk saris in pink, white, yellow and orange, and men wear white shirts and checked shirts. The walls are painted turquoise with barred windows, and a railing separates the back section. No speaker or individual candidate for a person is clearly visible in the frame.2005-11-23A large indoor hall packed with seated devotees watching a satsang, photographed from the back of the room. Rows of green and beige plastic chairs fill the floor, and many attendees wear white, cream and pastel saris or shirts, with a woman in a saffron-orange sari in the foreground and a man in a yellow striped shirt in the middle. Turquoise walls, barred windows and overhead fluorescent tube lights frame the space, and a metal barrier and standing crowd stand near the back. Several hundred people are visible, and the faces are fixed on the front of the hall where the teaching takes place, out of frame.2005-11-23July 01 20072007-07-01A photo of a free medical camp held in a plain whitewashed room with barred windows and a red-brown floor. Seated patients fill red, blue and white plastic chairs; a boy in a checked shirt and a man in an orange shirt sit near the front. At a table on the left, a man in a white shirt and a man in light grey clothes attend to patients, while a woman in an orange-trimmed white sari stands by the window. On the right, a large framed print shows a figure in orange robes with rudraksha beads and a flower garland, seated in meditation, with a readable caption reading Paramahamsa Nithyananda Paramashivam attributed to the printed portrait. Several patients are older men and women in everyday dress.2007-07-01A photograph of a free medical camp held in a plain whitewashed room with blue-framed windows and a red-brown floor. Around twenty villagers sit on red and blue plastic chairs and on the floor, including a woman in a green and grey shawl with a flower garland, a man in a white shirt standing near a white-covered table, a man in an orange shirt wearing a dark blue turban, a woman in a black head covering, and several children in shirts and trousers. Medical staff in white shirts and a woman in an orange-striped sari work at a table laden with supplies and boxes. No a person candidate is clearly visible.2007-07-01A large indoor hall packed with seated devotees facing a stage at the far right, where a figure in a light cream robe stands near a raised platform. Rows of red plastic chairs fill the foreground, occupied mostly by older men in white shirts and light dhotis and women in saris of yellow, green and blue. Teal walls, a grey ceiling and rows of fluorescent tubes and ceiling fans light the room, and standing attendees line the back. The scene suggests a satsang or discourse gathering, with a figure at the front of the room who is not clearly identifiable from appearance.2005-11-23Indoor hall with a large audience seated on white plastic chairs, facing toward the front of the room. In the foreground a grey-haired man in white shirt and white dhoti claps, next to a woman in a brown-and-gold sari with glasses. Beside them a man in a grey striped shirt and glasses gestures with his hand, and a man in a peach-orange shirt sits with his hands together. Behind them a woman in a light green sari and others sit among standing attendees in white shirts and dhotis. A woman in an orange sari and a woman in a white sari with gold border stand near a pillar decorated with a colourful woven strip. Overhead, strings of lights hang beneath a balcony and a patterned ceiling. No deity murti, throne or a person candidate is visible in this frame.2007-01-12A large indoor hall with a light turquoise wall and several ornate wooden doors with gold patterned panels. A dense crowd of seated devotees fills the foreground and mid-ground, mostly in white shirts, cream and white sarees, and a man in a green striped shirt in the centre. Plastic red chairs are visible under many seated people. Fluorescent ceiling lights hang above, and a few standing figures in white are visible near the back. No one in the scene is clearly identifiable as a person; no appearance-based candidate is present.2005-11-23July 01 20072007-07-01August 30 20152015-08-30