I grew up a Bangladeshi Muslim girl in the Midwest, but early on, I gravitated toward the Hinduism of my Indian Bengali family friends, enthralled by the pantheon of female deities, the pujas, the ...

For many longtime Oregonians, the memory of Ma Anand Sheela and her controversial tenure serving as the right-hand woman for Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh when the guru and his followers were in Oregon, ...

Ma Anand Sheela, one of the main subjects of the Netflix docuseries “Wild Wild Country,” has become a breakout star of sorts, tearing the internet apart with debates regarding whether the former ...

Ma Anand Sheela’s life and actions continue to fascinate the world. The intriguing woman became a follower of the Indian mystic and guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh when she was 21. Sheela rapidly became ...

Oregonians with long memories have never forgotten Ma Anand Sheela, and people all over the world saw her in action thanks to the Netflix 2018 documentary, “Wild Wild Country.” Now, the former top ...

Few characters in Oregon life have been as formidable as Ma Anand Sheela. Sheela was the mouth and mastermind of the Rajneeshee sect. Under her orders, the orange-clad "sannyasins" would take over the ...

Rain Man director Barry Levinson will helm Sheela, which was written by Nick Yarborough. Levinson will also produce via his Baltimore Pictures, along Permut Presentations’ David Permut, Jason Sosnoff ...

Ma Anand Sheela — star of the Netflix docuseries on a cult, “Wild Wild Country” — was beamed in via video to a recent Q&A the network organized. “I have been getting lots of positive responses,” ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Ma Anand Sheela, who helped controversial Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh set up a commune in Oregon in the 1980s and was a subject of the hit Netflix series Wild Wild Country, ...