The Rise Of India's Crony Spiritualism

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In our country God men are as old as the concept of God and Religion. The gullible common man ever remains  fooled by these God men so much so that they have become a power unto themselves Over a time all such organized faith, cult and  religious movements have effectively become the smartest and most flourishing start up ideas that has over a time become a superlative profiting business ventures. The Guru-Baba duo of Ravishankar and Ramdev are currently  the emerging nexus of Modiism

 Ramdev Baba's nine year old Patanjali Ayurved reports Rs 5000 crore annual revenue from virtually nothing when it started in year 2007 and now  is all set to double that figure in the current  financial year .Ramdev is  going after big established multinationals like Nestle, Colgate Palmolive and Unilever and he insists they will be left clueless. That  speaks the kind of political clout that he garners. Seeing Patanjali's success, Ravi Shankar's Sri Sri Ayurveda is also on the way to rake billions In short Guru-Baba duo's commercial empires have grown exponentially into thousands of crores post Modi Raj

 Ravishakar again is one of those self appointed spiritual guru who was allowed to hold his grand Tamasha the  so called cultural jamboree last year in Delhi's  yamuna river's fragile floodplain in spite of public and environmentalists uproars. Not only that the Govt at the Center also used the Indian Army's manpower for the construction of  a seven acre stage to accommodate some  8500 artists. This amounts to  most stinking and shameless criminal use of political power to pamper a private citizen's ego .It was further shocking to see our  most respected Prime Minister Modi gracing the function. Truly it is so very frustrating to watch  how  political parties  in our country  remain enslaved to the arrogance of such  self glorified Spiritual Gurus. Incidentally it will be costing the Govt exchequer 50 crore  and a 10 year time to repair the damages caused to the yamuna floodplain by the Art of Living's  3 day   cultural event 

Surprisingly Ravi Shanker has today refused to pay the National Green Tribunal(NGT) the 5 crore penalty imposed on his Art of Living for the serious environmental  damages to the Yamunna   floodplain .Not only this he had the audacity to blame the  Govt for permitting him to hold his tamasha on the floodplain. Now should we hail or wail the  rise of India's Crony Spiritualism is something beyond me





  

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