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Nil by mouth

A collaboration between science and religion in India is putting to the test a holy man's claim to have eaten and drunk nothing for 70 years.

Prahlad Jani is a sadhu, a Hindu ascetic mystic, in his 80s, who says he last drank water at the age of twelve. He was given the gift by the goddess Ambaji, and is sustained by amrita, the nectar of the Hindu gods, which passes into his head from the air.

'Although I walk a hundred, 200 km in the jungle,' he told ...

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