Ramdev's legal team recently filed an injunction to halt the release of journalist Priyanka Narain's exposé, Godman to Tycoon: The Untold Story of Baba Ramdev. The book traces the yoga guru's journey from Haridwar to setting up the Patanjali group, which is now India's second-largest FMCG company. The author also delves into his murky past, the controversies he has been involved in - such as the mysterious deaths of his two associates, Rajeev Dixit and Swami Yogananda - and financial irregularities in his business dealings.
Hmm - did the book get released or not?
Latest Update on his Products Empire!
Bypassing unresolved trauma using the crutch of religion can lead to a downward spiral ending in fanaticism, jingoism and religious bigotry, as is often the case in inchoate post colonial societies like India where religion is woven into the warp and weft of everyday life and the separation of church and state is only a noble idea, and not a hard fact.
This book is more in awe of Ramdev’s entrepreneurship than it is intent on investigating the allegations it cites.
And what are these allegations and (some uncorroborated) accusations that one reads about in the book?
That Ramdev is a fraud.
That some people around him die mysteriously once they fall out with him, while others claim to live in mortal fear.
That when angry he can beat a person black and blue and leave them bloodied.
That his products are at times really nothing like he claims – the manufacturing is quite often outsourced to various factories and the products are packaged the way he wants to sell them.
That there are enough allegations against him as a businessman of having broken laws with impunity all through his career.
That starting from the question of his birth to his business operations, much is covered in the haze of obfuscation and mythology that he actively perpetuates.
That as an individual he has no compunction in breaking the moral codes of a “yogi”, a label which he uses as a protective cloak against greater scrutiny to further his business aspirations.
part 2- no one can doubt his Hatha Yoga skills!!
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