HATHRAS: In one of the narrow alleys inside a ramshackle home adorned with a photo of Baba Sahab Ambedkar, 24-year-old Vaishnavi looks inconsolable as she recalls the loss of her sister but refuses to forget Baba or abandon his blessings. “My sister is gone, I don’t know why I am still alive, but I have […]
NEW DELHI: “I got trampled under the people. I was crushed under the men”, said 5-year-old Labi, visibly injured and anxious as he narrated the horrors of the stampede that occurred on Tuesday during a satsang of Bhole Baba, a self-styled godman, in a small village of Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras. Unbeknownst to the attendees, the serene […]