About the Book: Women Who Wear Only Themselves : Conversations With Four
Travellers on Sacred Journeys
'Insightful and moving...This portrait of ordinary, incredible people is a
wonderful reflection of south Indias many paths to a higher power.—Shashi
Tharoor
Sri Annapurani Amma left the safety of home and family to follow the summons of
a long-dead saint. Like Akka Mahadevi and Lal Ded before her, she chooses to
live naked, and sometimes delivers prophecies, but what shines through is her
humour and crazily one-pointed devotion to her path...
Soon after her tenth birthday, Balarishi Vishwashirasini was predicting
futures—in no time she was transformed into a guru. Now in her thirties,