Farrukh Dhondy returns with a new book, Prophet of Love, and weaves a thrilling tale of a Godman (who bears more than a passing resemblance to Osho Rajneesh), his intriguing past and a journalist in search of the truth. In an interview with Rohini Nair, the London-based writer talks about weaving a fictional narrative from fact and why he has no tolerance for fake gurus.

My final years at secondary school in Pune (then Poona) coincided with the first overhaul of history, the official revision which the successful (the word “victorious” seems triumphalist in the face of the Partition) Indian Independence Movement sought to impose as soon as it turned its mind to second-ranking issues such as the content of