“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language. Why are my sides so sore and achy? It’s from crying, I’m told. I did not know that we cry with our muscles. The pain is not surprising, but its physicality is, my tongue unbearably bitter, as though I ate a loathed meal and forgot to clean my teeth, on my chest a heavy, awful weight, and inside …

I was intrigued about Ma Anand Sheela after watching the documentary ” Wild Wild West” on Netflix. I had heard about Osho but never heard about this feisty individual who was instrumental in building the brand of Osho. Osho had moved to West and he was in the process of building a city for his followers called, ” Rajneeshpuram”. Ma Anand Sheela was endowed with this responsibility. She had taken up this project with all her might and she was ready to tackle any hurdle to make this project a success. She said, ‘I was not looking for enlightenment. I was …