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Wild, Wild country: series review

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Back in the day I used to read various articles from Osho in the TOI  - the speaking tree (?). The ideas were profound, to say the least. Then I didn't know too much about the man, except his name.  Gradually over the course of the next few years, I understood more. I knew there was an ashram in Pune and that Osho had a large number of followers till date, but that was about as far as my knowledge went. Fast forward a couple of decades, and it is a coincidence that Firangi mentioned some earth shattering facts one day, just around the time the documentary was getting released. I was stunned by what I heard from him. As always, I was hooked. Then I got a chance to watch this documentary a few days later, and I was as surprised as I ever was. Everything seemed like fiction to me (isn't it?). Did they actually move to the U.S? Did they really have their own police force, a private aircraft landing strip and much more? Long live Firangi for keeping the spirit of quizzing and triv