Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, known as U. G. Krishnamurti or simply U.G., was an Indian speaker and philosopher, often referred to as an 'anti-guru' due to his rejection of traditional spiritual systems and his assertion that enlightenment was a fiction. Born on July 9, 1918, in Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, and raised in the cultural milieu of post-colonial India, U.G. underwent a transformative...