On June 7, 2011, soon after Baba Ramdev’s ‘fast unto death’ was disrupted by the Delhi Police, I received a similarly absurd mail as the one I mentioned in my last blog. LOKPAL BILL : JUST A MISS CALL AWAY +912261550789 Govt. of India put a condition that 25 CRORES of people support is needed…
Prabhat Patnaik is a well known economist and a political commentator. In an incisive article written in the latest issue of Frontline (June 19 – July 1, 2011) Professor Patnaik says: Prabhat Patnaik Ramdev project is fundamentally anti-democratic, anti-secular and a disturbing throwback to our pre-modernity. This is because while everybody in a democracy has…
Ram Puniyani The police crackdown on people assembled to participate on the anti corruption fast by Baba Ramdev on the Sunday night, 5th June 2011, needs to be condemned to no end. As the police methods are, brutal by there nature, in their effort to evacuate the Ramlila ground, they did resort to the firing of…
Ram Puniyani Ramdev has been probably the most successful of God men of recent times. He claims to have a following of over a billion people. There are an infinite number of people claiming that his yoga therapy and medicines work wonders for their health. Baba in a short span of time has built…
Ramdev is the nuttiest of yoga gurus we have seen in recent years. Here is a sample of his wisdom retrieved from a recent interview he gave to Tehelka: On Cleansing Corruption If the black money from abroad comes back into the same corrupt system, how will it reach the people? That’s why the…