The devout spend the entire month of Sravana in the worship of Shiva culminating in the Sravana Purnima on Raksha Bandhan day Shiva is beyond the Gunas as His trident represents all three sattva rajas ...

In the 1960s and ’70s, his leggy femmes fatales beckoned from paperback covers and posters for movies like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “Thunderball.” Portrait by Kazik Pazovski.

Also read: God complex, sprawling ashram & sermons on how to live like the rich — inside the world of Bhole Baba Days before the attack ... had fined a mini truck driver for a ‘Jai Mata Di’ poster on ...

The outermost circle is populated with lakhs of devotees, mostly women who are encouraged to show up to the satsangs in brightly coloured sarees. Young girls in bridal wear sit in the front rows ...

Kumar says the baba’s ashram has over 20 rooms where servants provide various services and make the merchandise items. In Sikandra Rao’s Bhuteshwar Colony, the walls of a two-storey house belonging to ...

The mass tragedy of the Hathras stampede, that officially killed 121 people, has once again revived the debate surrounding babas or self-styled godmen and people’s unhealthy obsession with them.

Self-styled godman Bhole Baba's lawyer A P Singh alleged on Sunday that witnesses told him some people opened cans containing a poisonous substance in the crowd during the July 2 Hathras 'satsang ...

She started following Bhole Baba when she heard that he could solve all her problems,” says Pushpa Devi, Asha’s sister. Asha had a small poster of Pal in her room. Harikant merely says he is ...

Also read | Bhole Baba, preacher at centre of Hathras stampede ... The only known photographs of Suraj Pal are those displayed on posters and trinkets at his religious gatherings or a few secretly ...

Hathras stampede: In a first video statement after the July 2 stampede at a satsang in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras which claimed the lives of over 120 people, Surajpal, also known as 'Bhole Baba ...

Ironically, most of his posters, billboards and monologues on YouTube ... “Although the police have lodged an FIR, Bhole Baba has not been named in it,” said All India Democratic Women’s Association ...

The life of Bhole Baba, a former constable turned spiritual leader with a devoted following, is a complex tapestry of rural upbringing, law enforcement experience, and spiritual transformation.