The Aghori

The documented contemporary order, traced to a named seventeenth-century founder, actually runs leprosy clinics and a children's home in Varanasi today — a real, ongoing service organisation with a named lineage, quite unlike its sensationalised media depiction.

Ron Barrett, Aghor Medicine (2008)

A Hindu ascetic order associated with cremation-ground practices, often sensationalised in television and travel writing as engaging in cannibalism.

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