5 International Icons & Their Stories Of Inspiration In India

“Are you going to pick me up on an elephant?”

“Do you walk to school by crossing a thin bridge made of planks?”

“Wait – how is your English so good? Shouldn’t you be speaking Indian?”

I. The Beatles

In February 1968, the legendary Beatles, along with their wives and girlfriends, arrived in Rishikesh, India for advanced meditation training at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. They had met the Maharishi a year prior at a seminar in Wales, and wanting to learn more, decided to take a trip to the valley of saints.