From BBC News
“Long live Baba!” The chant echoed down the street outside Prashanti Nilayam (Abode of Peace), the ashram that Sathya Sai Baba set up in Puttaparthi.
Thousands of people were packed tightly in the narrow lane, many of them seated on the ground, their hands joined in prayer as they murmured his name.
These were ordinary Indians, people who believed Sai Baba to be a living God, some…