Dera Sacha Sauda and
Gurmeet Ram Rahim
A Decade-Long Investigation
Anurag Tripathi
Penguin
198 pages; Rs 299
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is a bemusing absurdity. His core occupation is that of a serious "godman," that unique Indian creation, but the past few years have seen him become a subject of scathing derision, principally on account of the buffoonish characters he plays in his films, with such titles as The Messenger of God , madcap ventures that he also sometimes produces, directs and composes music for. There is nothing this rotund superhero cannot do.
This rock-star posturing by those driving his cult has yielded success in the past,
