A spiritual group whose “living god” founder has been accused of sexually abusing young boys has become an accredited partner of the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme, the Guardian can reveal.

Srinivas draws on experience with devotees, investigates global influence of Sai Baba's influence

Mumbai: 'Sai - the God Within', a bi-lingual film on Satya Sai Baba will be launched in Mumbai on January 29, the film's presenter Deepak Pandit, an ardent Satya Sai Baba devotee, said.

KATHMANDU: After dragons, exotic flora and images of the Buddha, Chinese weavers have turned to a new design for textile exports - Satya Sai Baba, one of India's spiritual gurus.

The secret swami, BBC2

It's difficult to write about religion without offending someone, but mercifully we're reviewing a television programme here, and not the mixture of wishful thinking and wilful credulity that leads people to worship soi-disant gurus such as Swami Sai Baba.

It has been estimated that Sri Satya Sai Baba, India's biggest spiritual leader, has up to 30 million devotees around the world.

Basava Premanand is India's leading guru-buster.

The famous Sai Baba shrine in Shirdi town of Maharashtra is being brought under the state government's control following complaints of mismanagement.

God-man Satya Sai Baba, whose ashram at Puttaparthy in Anantapur district has been the destination of the high and mighty of Indian politics for the last many decades, has never voted in his life.

New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will visit Sathya Sai Baba, a spiritual leader with millions of followers worldwide, at his ashram in Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh Wednesday, officials said.

Followers of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba around the world celebrate his birthday today, November 23. Sri Sathya Sai Baba was born on this day in 1926 in a tiny, hilly, isolated village called Puttaparthi in the Anantapur District of the present Andhra Pradesh state of India. Not only his father Sri Pedda Venkappa Raju but his grandfather Sri Ratnakaram Kondama Raju had been very pious people belonging to the Raju lineage of the Kshatriyas.

Press Trust of India, Jan. 19, 2003

The New York Times, Dec. 1, 2002

Rediff (India), Sep. 2, 2002

1. A Friend in India to All the World
2. Secret Swami
3. Guru who gives us no answers
4. Sai Baba: God-man or con man?
5. Preaching the message of love
6. Spiritual depths
7. The Indian living god, the paedophilia claims and the Duke of Edinburgh awards
8. Farooq Abdullah prays at Tirumala temple; meets Satya Sai Baba
9. Chinese weavers eye Satya Sai Baba’s saffron robe
10. Vajpayee to visit Sathya Sai Baba