Hari Om! Jai Ram, Jai Krishna! Why should godmen keep secret diaries, some may wonder. But I am not a godman, I am god. The lawns in other godmen’s ashrams yielded only grass, mine yielded human ...

Asumal Harpalani (Asaram Bapu) was born in 1941 in Berami, a village in Pakistan’s Sindh province. After the Partition, he and his family moved to Ahmedabad. The self-styled godman’s biography, ...

If the devil truly wears Prada, in India, he sometimes prefers white or saffron robes. The Cult of Fear series attempts to peel back the layers of divinity draped over India’s most infamous godmen, ...

The Supreme Court of India has granted interim bail to self-proclaimed godman Asaram Bapu on medical grounds in a 2013 rape case. The court, however, has imposed strict conditions on his release.