“If there is an allegory to be made, it’s clear that the many heads of Ravana are the police chief and the politician and Baba Shakti — the triumvirate of politicized Hindu nationalism ...

In the present day, Singh still leads the city police and is a patron of the famed spiritual leader Baba Shakti (longtime Indian actor Makarand Deshpande, in his English-language debut), who’s ...