Virat-Anushka wedding: Maharaj Anant is the Baba of the moment

The wedding of Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli in Italy earlier this week has launched an unlikely celebrity — a Haridwar-based spiritual guru called Maharaj Anant Baba whose pictures with the couple have since gone viral on social media.

For many, the fact that Anant Baba too was flying to Italy with the Sharma family was a clear sign that a wedding was in the offing. The Baba has for years been the family’s spiritual guru, specifically Sharma’s.

Not many had, however, heard of him in Haridwar until Sharma landed there to meet him at his ashram, Anant Dham, in