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SNIPPET: "A Jet Airways Boeing 737-800, flight 9W-723 from Delhi to Varanasi (India) with 114 people on board, was enroute when a passenger dressed as Sadhu (holy man) got in a discussion with a seat neighbour who objected to the Sadhu talking to the seat neighbour's wife. According to the couple the Sadhu replied along the line "Shut up or a bomb will explode"." SNIPPET: "Police found no traces of explosives on board."

NEW DELHI: Many people in United States dropped out and turned on in the 1960s as the country became involved in the Vietnam war and major cities became engulfed by race riots. Rampuri went a big step further - he disappeared into rural India and became a naked sadhu . For 21 years he wandered holy outposts and smoked pot from a clay pipe called a chillum, learned the rituals of sadhus - Hindu devotees covered in sacred ashes and sporting dreadlocks - from a guru and along the way abandoned his western name and cut most contact with...