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Busmanship. The chief sadhu and founder of the Kaliaboda math was an octogenarian, self-styled Pagala Baba (mad monk), who had achieved fame when he told a gathering that he was, at the moment of addressing them, also making a divinely simultaneous appearance in a bus traveling from Cuttack to Calcutta. On the basis of this success he claimed to be a personal incarnation of the Hindu god Brahma, and frequently threatened to destroy the universe. His worshipful believers included many rich people from Cuttack and a maharaja or two. Even the police, before breaking into the Kaliaboda math, respectfully...
Horn bugles sounded shrilly as the police battered at the main gate, and from the walls archers and men with slingshots attacked them with arrows and stones. Bursting into the courtyard of the math, they found Pagala Baba, dressed in animal skins, sitting on a lotus-shaped throne, waving a piece of red cloth and shouting, "Let blood flow!" Sadhus armed with spears, tridents and heavy two-handed swords forced the police back, leaving one cop and two sadhns dead...
...Last Stand. When military police reached the scene, many of the sadhus had fled, but a sturdy minority, including Pagala Baba, had retired to a maze of underground cells within the tunnel-honeycombed fortress, and had to be flushed out one by one with tear gas. In the courtyard the police found a huge chariot in which the mad monk's disciples were wont to haul him about. Statues of Pagala Baba were displayed in the gardens and orchards of the math. His bedroom was adorned with tiger skins and statuettes of nude women. Underground, behind steel doors...
Hauled off to jail, Pagala Baba demanded meat instead of the customary vegetarian prison diet. Said he: "I am indifferent to punishment by men because God's justice is supreme." Last week, given a "lenient" sentence of two years "because of his age," he was no longer so indifferent to man's justice. A number of wealthy Cuttack admirers, trustees of the Kaliaboda math, had persuaded him to appeal the sentence. He gave in, on the ground that the "high court is a little nearer God's justice than the lower court." But the people of Cuttack...
...REVIEW "THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA" : IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE COMPASSIONATE, THE MERCIFUL, O GREAT AND ALL-SEEING SPLENDID TIME, I WILL AGREE TO SEND YOU FORTHWITH A DANCING GIRL FROM ISPAHAN IF YOU CAN PROVE ONE SET USED IN "HAJJI BABA" WAS NOT DESIGNED AND BUILT ESPECIALLY FOR THIS LUSCIOUS PERSIAN CINEMASCOPE...