Beatles’ Indian hideaway comes together

Tourists gather in front of a mural of the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the ashram in Rishikesh during International Yoga Day on June 21. - Photos: AFP

Fifty years after the Beatles came to India, the bungalows where the Fab Four lived, the post office where John Lennon sent Yoko Ono postcards and the giggling guru’s house are all ruins.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram, where the world’s most famous group sought refuge and spirituality in 1968 and wrote much of their seminal White Album, fell into disuse in the early 2000s.