Sunil Khilnani teaches at the University of London. He is the author of The Idea of India, published by Penguin in the UK and Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US.
‘Nirmala Chakravarty, a young and beautiful Shakta mystic from East Bengal, known to her followers as Anandamayi, first came to the city of Benares in 1928’.
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