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I'm your host, Faranak Amidi.

God men are not uncommon in India.

They often wield a lot of power and influence and can have large numbers of devotees.

But Rathema is unusual because she's a woman.

She claims to do you, I don't carew it. She claims to do actual miracles.

Her devotees see her as a godwoman and are happy to travel just to be in her presence.

Our reporter in Delhi, Divya, got extremely rare access to Rathema and her followers to get a real

insight to what it means to be a godwoman. What they actually are, are very, very influential and

powerful people. They command huge followings. Many of them amass a lot of wealth, though they don't necessarily display it.

Some of them show a life which, at least from the outside, looks very simple. A lot of them

do a lot of charitable work alongside their preachings. But most of them claim to do miracles. And that is where it becomes a bit of a

sticky wicket. Because if somebody is imparting wisdom and another person is benefiting from it,

then that's absolutely fine. But if somebody is claiming to do miracles and there are people

who are going with blind faith to that person, that's where a lot of anti-superstition activists come in and criticize these men and women

claiming to have godly or divine powers to intervene in everyday lives.

And in fact, some godmen have been accused of corruption.

Some have been convicted of corruption,

wrongdoing, even sexual assault of their followers. They are behind bars. So they're powerful,

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