Asaram Saint

At a time when self-declared godmen and "saints" are in the public glare, the famed 'Falahari Baba' in Rajasthan has been charged with raping a 21-year-old woman at his ashram

Self-declared religious guru Aaaram Bapu has angrily described himself as a donkey after being denounced as neither a saint nor a preacher by an important association of Hindu saints.

In a country where an alleged rapist (Asaram) appears in textbooks as a saint, along with some of India's most prominent philosophers and thinkers, the government's efforts to curtail basic freedoms, seem almost perverse.

Rape accused self-styled godman Asaram features in a chapter on saints in a Class III textbook in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district, sharing space with Vivekananda, Mother Teresa and Ramakrishna Paramhans.

At a time when self-declared godmen and "saints" are in the public glare, the famed 'Falahari Baba' in Rajasthan has been charged with raping a 21-year-old woman at his ashram

Self-declared religious guru Aaaram Bapu has angrily described himself as a donkey after being denounced as neither a saint nor a preacher by an important association of Hindu saints.

In a country where an alleged rapist (Asaram) appears in textbooks as a saint, along with some of India's most prominent philosophers and thinkers, the government's efforts to curtail basic freedoms, seem almost perverse.

Rape accused self-styled godman Asaram features in a chapter on saints in a Class III textbook in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district, sharing space with Vivekananda, Mother Teresa and Ramakrishna Paramhans.