DNA's photojournalist Nishant Ratnakar captures hitherto unseen images of the villages surrounding Swami Nithyananda's ashram, where feelings about the swami continue to be ambivalent-leaning-towards-angry.

Expressing their anger

Villagers who live near the ashram hurled stones and mud at a hoarding directing visitors towards the ashram, defacing swami Nithyananda’s photograph.