50 years on, visitors still drawn to Beatles' Indian hideaway
433 views · Published 13 August 2018 · 1:35 · Indexed 27 September 2026
Channel: AFP News Agency · 2018 · News & Politics
Fifty years after the Beatles came to India, the bungalows where the Fab Four lived, the post office where John Lennon sent Yoko Ono postcards and the giggling guru's house are all ruins. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram, where the world's most famous group sought refuge and spirituality in 1968 and wrote much of their seminal "White Album", fell into disuse in the early 2000s.
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