There Once Was a Guru from Rishikesh

"There Once Was a Guru from Rishikesh" Saturday Evening Post, 1964. Halfway between the summer of love and the Tet offensive, the Beatles went to India to study with the Maharishi—and Lewis Lapham was the only journalist allowed inside.

In Delhi, I hired a car a told him I wanted to go to Rishikesh, the holy city on the Ganges. He grinned and said, “You go Beatles?”

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