The Rise Of India's Crony Spiritualism
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 Ayu...