Former IB official to become Kinnar Akhara's second non-transgender seer

Allahabad | Sunday | 3rd March, 2019

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ALLAHABAD: A gold medallist in college, an Intelligence Bureau official, a professor and finally a sadhvi. "Head of the kinnar akhara, achraya mahamandaleshwar Laxmi Narayan Tripathi said, "Yogeshwari is a learned and religious woman and her becoming the mahamandaleshwar of the akhara will go miles in strengthening the 'sanathan dharma' and guiding the members of the akhara." There were elders in the village who constantly lived in fear," she recalled. "But something was missing still from my life. "I still remember the pain in the eyes of the poor girls and their parents who wanted their daughters to get married but because of dearth of money and fear of Naxalites, they were unable to do so..