Word: ashram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside the Maharishi's 15-acre ashram (academy), inner peace last week was overshadowed by outer turmoil. The Maharishi's guards used barbed wire and billy clubs to fence off a horde of reporters and photographers trying to cover the retreat. After one photographer was whacked repeatedly by a gang of sentries when he wandered past the guard station, the Indian police arrived at Rishikesh to open an investigation. Because the Maharishi charges $800 for three months' room and board, the police may also declare the ashram a hotel and force the Maharishi to register guests like...
...marketplace and household. At its opening in 1953, Literacy Village was one-half a bungalow in Allahabad, a few workers, and a few booklets within the vocabulary range. Today, it is a compound of 20 brick buildings on a country road outside Lucknow, with a courtyard, an ashram for prayer, and a well-worked-out philosophy...