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...western tourists still make pilgrimages to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's retreat? In the early 1980s you could always spot them there in Rishikesh, in the Himalayan foothills of northern India. Some came in search of the maharishi to learn more about transcendental meditation. Most of them really made the trip to pay tribute to the Beatles. On any given day you found them trying to reconnect to the current that had passed through their lives in the days before the band broke up. They were the ones you saw crouching in the grass, reaching down to touch the concrete...
...pivotal, if oddest, events of the Flower Power '60s. Indisputably beautiful fruits of the getaway were the songs composed there. John said he wrote "hundreds"; Paul came up with at least 15; and most of the Beatles' White Album and Abbey Road were conceived in Rishikesh. George contributed four songs, including the anticarnivore screed Piggies and the gorgeous Here Comes the Sun and Something. With more than 150 versions recorded, Something is the second-most-covered Beatles song after Yesterday, but a measure of Harrison's obscurity within the band is that Frank Sinatra used to introduce Something...
...western tourists still make pilgrimages to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's retreat? In the early 1980s you could always spot them there in Rishikesh, in the Himalayan foothills of northern India. Some came in search of the maharishi to learn more about transcendental meditation. Most of them really made the trip to pay tribute to the Beatles. On any given day you found them trying to reconnect to the current that had passed through their lives in the days before the band broke up. They were the ones you saw crouching in the grass, reaching down to touch the concrete...
...Driver Hari Singh pulled his crowded vehicle out of the Punjab capital of Chandigarh shortly after nightfall for what was to have been a routine trip to Rishikesh, a Hindu pilgrim center in Uttar Pradesh. But half an hour into the journey, a white Fiat suddenly stopped in front of the bus, forming a blockade. Five armed men, four of them turbaned in the manner of Sikhs, burst out of the car, threw Singh off the bus and commandeered his vehicle. After driving the bus to a nearby field, the gunmen opened fire, instantly killing 38 men, women and children...
...river that runs through that shady gorge joins another further downstream, and many more before it descends from the mountains near the city of Rishikesh in Northern India. It is the holy river Ganges, which flows more than a thousand miles south to Calcutta, where the boys are from. A visitor would recognize no similarity between the impossibly quiet life of the mountain landscape and the bustle of a city that has become synonymous for unimaginable squalor and degradation. Its reputation transcends differences among cultures and continents but serves as a worst-case scenario for the human condition...