Ullekh NP
More than 120 devotees who had come to seek his blessings were killed in a stampede on July 2. Open travels to Hathras, the site of the tragedy, and follow the trail to his birthplace in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj to unravel the power and mystery of the godman
The sordid tale of a godman divested of his halo by the law and the question of how he acquired it
The meteoric rise of Shambhu Baba, the latest addition to the list of godmen from Mithilanchal in Bihar. And he is too sacred to be photographed
Ye living under a star sign: throw not stones at someone’s dream of hidden gold
The perils of tracking the godman’s life, influence and miracles as a journalist
The swami’s Life Bliss Foundation, set up in 2003, has more than 1,000 centres across 33 countries.