Break-up of the Beatles Lennon was in a fragile state of mind after returning from the band's sojourn in India in early 1968 and was disillusioned and resentful that their Transcendental Meditation guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, had not fulfilled Lennon's expectations. Lennon became discontented over his personal identity and his artistic role within the Beatles and entered another period of drug use, which coincided with a deterioration in his marriage and family life. He began to develop an intense interest in the work of Yoko Ono, a Japanese-American conceptual artist whom he had first met at one of her exhibitions in 1966. The pair
Krishnan Guru-Murthy Krishnan Guru-Murthy Krishnan Guru-Murthy (born 5 April 1970) is a British journalist on Channel 4. He presents the "Channel 4 News" and the foreign affairs documentary series "Unreported World". Guru-Murthy's father, a consultant radiologist, worked in Blackburn and Burnley; the family lived at West Bradford, Lancashire, before moving to a 'gothic folly' with four acres of land in a village outside Burnley. Guru-Murthy was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Blackburn, which was independent at the time but is now a Free School, followed by Hertford College at the University of Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics.