Swami Nithyananda

Self-styled godman Nithyananda fled India in 2019, leaving behind a sprawling religious empire, after being accused of child abduction, sexual assault and abuse, and claimed to have founded the nation of ‘Kailasa’, calling it a “safe haven for practising, aspiring or persecuted Hindus”. Representatives of the ‘country’ attended a UN meeting in 2023, signed a … Read more