On the sandy banks of the sacred Jumna River at New Delhi last week, 2,000 half-naked Brahman priests prayed in unison to Śurya, God of the Sun, imploring him to end the world’s chaos and send ...

All that remained of Lai Bahadur Shastri was a small pile of ashes on the bank of New Delhi’s Jumna River. Even as the nation mourned the death of its gentle leader, the search began for a ...