“Harrison’s intense relationship with Pandit Ravi Shankar played an equal, if not larger role, than Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s transcendental camp... Some of the people who knew both Harrison and Ravi Shankar described their close friendship as a karmic connection — as if they were related in a previous birth. And the famous sitarist himself once commented that George’s surprising affinity to Indian music, culture and religion could perhaps be only explained in terms of the Hindu belief in reincartion,” says Bose, who has previously authored For Reasons of State, a book on the emergency; and Behenji, a biography of former UP CM Mayawati.