The billionaires and the guru: A family burns through Rs 14,000 crore
(World News Science)

NEW DELHI: Along the river Beas in North India sits a sprawling spiritual commune that´s somewhere between a traditional ashram and a Florida gated community. There´s a grand meeting hall with tiered spires and pearl domes, but also tract housing and an American-style supermarket. It´s home to 8,000 devotees of the Master: Gurinder Singh Dhillon. His group, the Radha Soami Satsang Beas, says it has more than 40 lakh followers worldwide. Many call him a God in human form. But in the secular world of money, Dhillon, 64, is a key character in one of the most dramatic collapses in the annals of Indian business: The unraveling of the financial and health-care empire owned by the Singh brothers,...