Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Now Baba Armsdev – Sorry, Ramdev – Threatens Violence

Sometimes not even the power of yoga is enough, it seems.

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Baba Ramdev might switch to armed violence to avenge the wrong done to him. Above, followers were evicted by policemen from Ramlila grounds, Delhi.

Having been summarily evicted with some rough treatment by police from his stretching-cum-fasting festival at New Delhi's Ramlila Maidan Sunday, perhaps one shouldn't expect Baba Ramdev to be in a conciliatory mood. It would only be expected that, since Anna Hazare is missing lunch Wednesday to protest that police action, the yoga swami might weigh in himself to show that he's still with the program.

But we must confess we didn't see this coming: a switch from yoga as the vehicle to end corruption to armed violence as a means to avenge the wrong the swami feels was done to him in the wee hours of Sunday.

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In one of his many recent press conferences – has there ever been an event that has generated a higher press conference to significant development ratio? – the swami said, according to NDTV: "Next time at Ramlila, it will be Ravanlila. Let's see who get [...]



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