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Sathya Sai Baba ? The Man Who Would Be ?King of Kings?
2011-04-27 01:30:00
From November 1975, continuing until October 1999, I was inspired by a series of remarkable situations to become a devotee of a Sathya Sai Baba . In early 1978, he asked me to teach at his college at Whitefield, via Bangalore,South India. My words below suggest a little of the intense nature of that connection and what became of it twenty-five years later, as evidence counter to my assumptions, and from the testimony of many credible witnesses from of countries around the world, and then large documentation of his many failed predictions and promises of healing, became ever more compelling. A song can sometimes be a better vehicle of such deep experiences and ideals than many prosaic explanations. Should any former devotees, or others, relate to the content, I shall be happy, once they have clearly identified themselves, to send the music, which, though original, is redolent of a long British Isles folk tradition.
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Health Professional Comes Out On BBC: Sai Baba sexually abused him when you
2011-04-26 01:34:00
I dearly wish that, with the great many thousands of visitors to this blogsite and that of Robert Priddy, there will be those who can come out with their experiences of sexual and many other forms of abuse at the hands of Sathya Sai Baba . There is something dangerous - often unconsciously so - about the burying of terrible secrets. Secrets - secretly - undermine and erode, and play out in symptoms that look very different to their fearful and disruptive causes. Relationships, jobs, and personal happiness and effectiveness are typically damaged. However, it is with a marked caveat that I speak of coming out. I think, for example, of the acute situation in India, where I lived for several years, and therefore have some sense of how the extended family works, and the effects that speaking out can have in multiple destructive ways, including marriage, economic stability of whole family groupings and so forth. What is more, India is not a society where people can speak out on the most ...
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Sathya Sai Central Trust Says ?millions and millions? of Devotees Worldwide
2011-04-25 08:29:00
Below is the report of The (UK) Guardian's report on Sathya Sai Baba's death yesterday morning. I shall exerpt from, and comment on, it.
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Sathya Sai Baba Is Dead. Said He Would Rule the World and Die Aged 96
2011-04-24 14:23:00
Sathya Sai Baba died today, Sunday morning. A Puttaparthi hospital official says: "Sai Baba is no more with us physically. He breathed his last at 7:40am and died due to cardio-respiratory failure." The self-described fullest incarnation of God ever to visit the earth has been clearly documented as saying that he would live until circa 2022, aged 96. But 85 years of age cannot, by any miracle, be said to be 96. And well-documented promises that he would rule the world before leaving it have clearly not even begun to look at all likely. His devotees - with many sections of unquestioning sections the media following them - speak, as a Sathya Sai Central Trust bulletin of only days ago, of "millions and millions" of devotees around the world. See: Sathya Sai Trust Officials Say Sai Baba Out of Hospital Soon. Posted by Barry Pittard on April 16, 2011. This statement appeared in the long and anxiously awaited "Important Press Release by Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust", Friday, Ap...
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Sathya Sai Baba Teaches: ?We are not this body?. Why Are His Devotees Such
2011-04-24 00:26:00
Cited several times in the India n media's sudden, unaccustomed, large coverage of Sathya Sai Baba , are accounts of "eminent" Sai devotees stating that he will not die because he has promised to remain in the physical body until he is 96 years. Outside India, the notion of outstanding professionals giving credence to such way-out beliefs must seem strange. For the facts to sink in to a foreign brain, one has to live and work in India. One has to experience at first hand the sheer extent of superstition from top to bottom in that society of such mutual kindness and cruelty, beauty and tragedy. Valiantly, many Indians struggle on behalf of sense and reason, but what they face is formidable in the extreme. The Times of India reports: Sai Baba's devotees believe he will live for 96 years IANS, Apr 21, 2011, 03.45pm IST ...................
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Barry Pittard?s Articles Most-Sought During Sathya Sai Baba Health Crisis (
2011-04-23 08:39:00
In that the links may be useful for readers - especially those new to, or less familiar, with this blogsite - I shall give below a list of Urls (Part 1 of 3) at this blogsite which, as I can see from an internal statistical read-outs, are getting solid 'hits'. To put the matter mildly .... Plenty of these usages originate from: Google and other search engines. Our allied blogsites and websites, such as Robert Priddy's highly organized main website: Sathya Sai Baba In Word and Action and his blogsite: Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed and from the general website Exbaba.comwhich contains a huge amount of contribution by former devotees from many countries. Important locations, especially for those who wish extensive, scholarly presentation are Brian Steel's writings at: Sathya Sai Baba: The Guru Who Claimed to be God on Earth and Recent Research on Sathya Sai Baba and A Bibliography of Apologetic Writings Many 'hits' come from individuals who search within 'Call For M...
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Andhra Opposition Want Release of Gvt Spies? Reports On Sathya Sai Baba
2011-04-22 13:36:00
One may raise the question: why would four very experienced Andhra Pradesh intelligence operatives between them keep round-the-clock watch, that has been continued unabated for four years, on affairs at Puttaparthi? What else might they wish to know? After all, inner-circle Puttaparthi corruption is common knowledge among India n state and central governments? Because Sai Baba has so many billionaire and millionaire supporters, the dimensions of the wealth flowing to the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust are on a scale that beggars the imagination. A speculation: By any chance, is the intensified interest related to extremely vast money laundering operations involving India and offshore tax havens? Are elements among Sathya Sai Baba's key servitors - but by no means all of them - involved in money laundering?
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Sathya Sai Baba Hardly Alive. World Attention on Kate and William Instead
2011-04-22 03:38:00
To this point, reports in the Western media of Sathya Sai Baba health troubles are hardly to be seen. So much, then, for the untiring and misleading claims in Puttaparthi propaganda that Sathya Sai Baba is known and honoured by many millions throughout the world. No doubt, after no question of life-support apparatus can be entertained, and when it is announced that Sathya Sai Baba is officially dead, there will be some coverage of it in foreign media. (We shall add our efforts to that end). But this attention will be miniscule to focus on countless other events. At the moment, the 'world' is far more fixated on the upcoming wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton , April 29th, 2011. The talk is, and will be for many days, of St James's Palace, not of Sathya Sai Baba's palace at Puttaparthi. Here is the Indian Express report of Sathya Sai Baba's medical state, as of last night: Sai Baba's health worsens; prohibitory orders in Puttaparthi Thu Apr 21 2011, 09...
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Sathya Sai Health Condition ?Very Critical?, Says Sai Hospital Head (21 Apr
2011-04-21 11:48:00
Indian media are starting to report that some Sathya Sai Baba forces favour his burial while he is still technically alive. Countries not steeped in the utmost superstition may find it hard to credit yesterday's bizarre news Yes, buried alive. When, then, exactly, is Sathya Sai Baba going - as he has long promised - to visit London, Malaysia, Rome and Southern California, USA?
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Human Rights Commission Probe Fronts Andhra Government On Sathya Sai Baba T
2011-04-19 00:31:00
In the last hours, many India n newspapers have run the story on the direction by the Andhra Pradesh Human Rights Commission to the State government to produce a report on Sathya Sai Baba's health condition. None too early in the piece, Sathya Sai Baba devotees themselves are now, at least via their lawyers, demanding answers concerning the workings of the Sathya Sai Central Trust. Readers of this blog, and that of Robert Priddy and of related websites, have long been presented with evidence of grievous lack of accountability in the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, and, at large, the international Sri Sathya Sai Organization. There are trust issues indeed. Since circa 2000, when the internet began to allow the rapid universal spread of information and communication, constant execration and libel have been heaped on the efforts of former Sathya Sai Baba followers to present a critique of the corrupt workings of the Sathya Sai apparatus. It is one of history's odd ironies that Sai de...
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Indian Lawyers Challenge Sathya Sai Baba?s Central Trust On Secrecy and Fou
2011-04-18 10:45:00
In the last days, there has fast emerged a major new turning point in the Sathya Sai saga. A climate is emerging in which Sai Baba devotee appointed lawyers are seriously looking at what their clients aver is the severe unaccountability of Puttparthi officialdom. See: Downturn In Sathya Sai Baba?s Condition (April 17th 2011) Posted by Barry Pittard on April 18, 2011 and Sathya Sai Devotees Suspect Foul Play In Guru?s Health Crisis. Seek Court Order Posted by Barry Pittard on April 16, 2011 These lawyers and their clients may pause to consider that networked former devotees have long spoken out about the extreme lack of accountability and duty of care in the international Sri Sathya Sai Organization. Indeed, some of these who have spoken up at great sacrifice to themselves and families were previously prominent leaders highly respected down the many years in which they served Sathya Sai Baba and his international organization. See: The Sathya Sai Organization: Almost overnight, d...
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Downturn In Sathya Sai Baba?s Condition (April 17th 2011)
2011-04-17 23:35:00
Reports say that Sathya Sai Baba 's health has relapsed. This is in marked contrast to to the optimistic view released by the Sathya Sai Central Trust last Friday. It stated: "In the latest review, as of today, the doctors attending on Him have expressed confidence that He is in a stable condition and is responding satisfactorily to the treatment being given to Him by the team of doctors, though somewhat slowly. They are confident that, if the progress continues to be stable and satisfactory as at present, it might be possible to shift Him from the hospital to His residence at Prasanthi Nilayam in about a fortnight". To follow the emerging picture, one must keep a careful eye on the dates. Today's Deccan Herald, 18th April (see below), indicates that there is no chance of Sai Baba's being removed from hospital, so serious is his condition. For a sense of the rapidly changing reports, I draw my readers' attention to the following reports in my last days' blogs. The latest rep...
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Sathya Sai Devotees Suspect Foul Play In Guru?s Health Crisis. Seek Court O
2011-04-16 12:25:00
In some major Indian newspapers, there are now reports of Sai devotees taking action that challenges the conduct of those close round Sathya Sai Baba, including urgent recourse to law. They suspect the gravest chicanery practised by forces vying for control of Puttaparthi . Those accused number prominent members of the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust. If these followers can sustain their case, the chances are that the scandal will be very great. Hitherto, we have had utmost difficulty in getting any but the media outside India to investigate the Sai Baba cult. One of the foremost Indian editors privately told me: it is not possible to investigate Sai Baba - his people are too powerful. I may add that the mass circulation magazine India Today was a rare exception. One of the journalists associated with the India Today cover story, Vijay Jung Thapa, had to have security mounted (?close body protection?) during and for some time after he was involved in the exposure story on Sathya Sa...
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Sathya Sai Trust Officials Say Sai Baba Out of Hospital Soon
2011-04-16 02:03:00
A Sathya Sai Central Trust "important press release" just to hand (see notice below) has begun to appear on various prominent Sathya Sai Baba related sites on the web. It notes that "for several days, His (sic) condition was a cause for concern". In other words, presumably, there is now NOT now cause for concern. But how can it be? Given his advanced age (supposedly 85 years, although this has been disputed in scholarly discussion), and the severity of his many symptoms, one might expect an even more reduced shell of his former self than hitherto. The bulletin refers to: "the spontaneous upsurge of prayers, bhajans, namasmarana, candle light processions of millions and millions of His devotees all over the globe for His very early and total recovery". I invite my dear reader to the simple expedient of sticking his or her head out the window just to check whether they can see any of it ..... If you should enjoy processions, some you may have to wait for Saint Patrick's Day in,...
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Is Sathya Sai Baba?s Survival Divine? But Treatment Keeps Many Elderly Sick
2011-04-13 22:41:00
When contrasted with the critical and prolonged illness of Sathya Sai Baba , many texts from his discourses are to be seen as mere hyperbole or some form of belief system that he, who claims to be perfection itself, cannot sustain in his own case. He says: ?Desire to which you are too fondly attached breeds anger and its nefarious brood. Discard it and you can have perpetual youth! The Aanandha that the Aathman can manifest will keep age and ageing away!? Discourse of Sathya Sai Baba, Prashanthi Nilayam, 22 Feb 1971. Published by Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publications Trust. Although it is widely known that most of the Media in India will not go up against Sai Baba's and his core servitors' political and religious clout, the following two reports have a touch of realism about them - very different to the positive spin which one fails to find in official Sathya Sai Organization as well as in rank-and-file devotee responses to be seen across the internet. They leave out of account t...
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Sathya Sai Baba. Stable But Still Critical, his doctors say
2011-04-11 22:42:00
Medical bulletins emitting from Sathya Sai Baba 's medical team say that 85 year-old patient's condition is still critical but stable and with some improvement. The sheer convergence of top Indian medical expertise at Sathya Sai Baba's bedside from elsewhere in India is quite extraordinary. One wonders how the patients they have left behind in other parts of India are faring.
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BBC-Named ?The Secret Swami?, Sathya Sai Baba Hospitalized and Fighting For
2011-04-06 03:59:00
Sathya Sai Baba is now kept alive by ventilator and kidney dialysis. In having to report the health bulletins emitting from Puttarthi, the Indian media - so remiss in reporting anything inimical to Sathya Sai Baba, are, of course, given that he may die at any moment, going to have to do their best to get the facts right. However, with the rare exception like the mass circulation magazine India Today, it has signally failed to look for or tell the facts. There has grown the irony that NRI's (non-resident-Indians) can read of the revelations about Sai Baba of a sort suppressed in the Indian media. But millions in India cannot. It is the media outside India which has investigated the many and serious allegations against Sathya Sai Baba, such as wide-scale, serial sexual molestation of boys and young men, implication in the cover up of murders in his bedroom in 1993, and other scandals. Those wishing to investigate the antecedents of Sathya Sai Baba's physical and mental health pro...
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Sathya Sai Baba?s Health Condition Again At Grave Risk
2011-04-05 03:35:00
In a matter of days, rosy reports emanating from official Puttaparthi sources about Sai Baba 's condition are now shown to be either pipe dreams or deliberate gloss. Of course it is conceivable that his leaders who control the bulletins to the media, government and Sathya Sai Organization etc., are unable to believe that their guru can die very soon. He had long prophesied matters very differently. By a number of usually well-informed sources , we are told that there is a battle royal going on for control of his organization. We learn of serious chicanery among certain Sai Baba family members and others. Alert media, lawfirms and other investigators will need for example - very quickly, before witnesses are hushed up - to get hold of stakeholders who have been disaffected, and also those, including many leaders in India and abroad, who have resigned from the Sathya Sai Organization on a matter of ethical principle. Experts in law, media, etc., well know that, well-handled and cros...
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Pacemaker ?Avatar? Says ?I am not this body?. Worried Devotees Pray For His
2011-04-03 01:05:00
As of 28 March 2011, we have a pacemaker avatar. The Lord of Lords, the Avatar of Avatars. The now hump-backed, immobile faced, golf-cart carried God on earth. He says that all the world loves him. But of course most people in the world at large have never heard of him. He has said he will transform India then the world before he leaves it in when about 92 years old. But he can't even get a wriggle on so as to perform these feats. He has had successive hip operations. He breaks down with heaving sobs, now recorded for posterity (if it is interested). Practically all that is left of any sign of rulership is the fantastical gold chair and float that bears him around to be worshipped by devotees too blinded to see the sheer scope of all his failed prophecies and promises.
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Sathya Sai Baba?s Pacemaker Implant ? His Promised Health and Longevity In
2011-03-31 23:31:00
Increasingly sick and ailing over recent years, Sathya Sai Baba has said: ?Purity, patience and perseverance. With these three you are bound to acquire good health and bliss. You may believe it or not. But the truth is that these three are responsible for my health (Arogya) and bliss (Ananda)? (Sanathana Sarathi July 1995, p. 173) But, sadly for himself and his devotees, he is not all-powerful, as he proclaims himself to be. But all-senile. This decline into senescence, was of course gradual but not exactly, even when it became glaringly evident, a topic for public discussion among his devotees. Several years back, when our laymen's eyes spotted the physical changes, senior cardiologists and other doctors among our number confirmed our own naive-level, but realistic, observations. Even brief extracts from articles over time at this blogsite give unmistakeable evidence of what devotees cannot truthfully rationalize or wish away. Namely that their supposedly all-powerful guru has...
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Sathya Sai Baba Hospitalized, Despite Hailing His Extraordinary ?Health?
2011-03-29 14:12:00
Stop Press! News of Sathya Sai Baba 's hospitalization are breaking in these last hours. Only a sanitized version of health problems afflicting Sathya Sai Baba is possible. Any reader of informed chroniclers - such as Robert Priddy, Brian Steel, Serguei Badaev, Alexandra Nagel, myself and others - knows how we have extensively, and with much care, often documented, the tight control on propaganda emitting from Puttapathi and the leadership of the international Sathya Sai Organization. One of my most read articles is this one about the deputy chairman of that organization, and the director of Sathya Sai Baba's attempt to get radio broadcasts into every corner of the world: Sathya Sai Baba's 'Minister of Propaganda' - Dr G. Venkataraman. A Mahashivaratri 2000 report in Sanathana Sarathi, Sai Baba's official organ (distributed worldwide), unintentionally mocks the absurdity of Sai Baba's self-presentations regarding his health, of which, by long habit, he gives the rosiest...
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Is Sathya Sai Organization ?Education? Really Education?
2011-03-24 22:29:00
There are many means by which the Sathya Sai Organization spreads its influence in communities throughout the world.  In regard to education, one is in-house, and introduces children of Sai devotees to the major world faiths, but emphasises primary faith in Sathya Sai Baba as God fully incarnate on earth at this time, and living in Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh ...
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What Is A Cult? Does Sathya Sai Baba Preside Over A Servile, Worldwide Cult
2011-03-21 04:12:00
Is the Sathya Sai Organization a cult? It is a fair question. No careless use of terms will serve us well. We might also enquire - perhaps of our own selves, more than anyone else, whether there are significant cultic elements in those institutions we may too readily deem 'mainstream' or liveable-with, or somehow 'rational', 'normal', and so forth. Does not the human mind tend to cling to certain presumed verities? How would we do traveling, for a while, without them? Even if such 'verities' had some substance to them, does the clinging in itself nullify any more profound nurturing of our being that we would wish to be mediated via our belief systems? I pose questions, here, rather than wish to plunge into answers. Perhaps it is our human readiness to come up with answers, and structures and tenets that traps instead of frees us. Perhaps we need, first, to posit, for the sake of argument or simply the fun of it, that we are trapped in our 'verities' and 'solutions'...
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?Marie Claire? Magazine: April 2011. Sathya Sai Baba Still Further Exposed
2011-03-14 10:04:00
In the article: 'Holy Man Or Hoax?', the world-famous 'Marie Claire' magazine has just furthered the exposure of Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide cult. Writing for the Australian edition of 'Marie Claire ' (April 2011), the British journalist Gethin Chamberlin, who resides in India (See note below), writes:
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Sathya Sai Baba?s Institute of ?Higher Learning?. Independent Professional
2011-03-09 21:57:00
Self-praise is no recommendation. Sathya Sai Baba 's public discourses, and many speeches by those around him, keep hailing the supposed glories of his education system. It would be useful if there were an authoritative, independent assesment. But where would one look? Certainly, beyond the loud hailing systems at Puttaparthi. And far beyond the political favouritism that is so endemic among the provenly demonstrably government and political supporters of Sathya, who sanction and support the almost unimaginable wealth, pomp and circumstance that are to be seen at Puttaparthi ..... Let us take Sathya Sai Baba's university at Puttaparthi.
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Sathya Sai Baba In Fits of Sobbing: Video Footage Confirms Earlier Accounts
2011-03-04 21:56:00
In the years following November 1975, the year in which I first read of him, I increasingly thought that Sathya Sai Baba was transforming Indian society, and would transform not only India but many individuals from countries around the world. And this on a far greater scale as time went by, on a scale unparalleled in history. He has many times claimed that he will, effectively in his own lifetime, avert mankind's worst catastrophe and set it on the path to a golden age. (See a list, chosen from many more claims to an avatarhood unparalled in history: Brian Steel, Sathya Sai Baba's Claims of Divinity and Divine Powers).
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Indian Army Abuse ? A Young Indian?s View
2011-02-25 00:27:00
I received this note from a young person living in India . Interestingly, in this person's report, the Indian army comes off badly and not the police. In the years that I lived in India, many Indians had great respect for the army but widely despised the police for their cruelty and corruption. Whatever the case, Sathya Sai Baba is heavily surrounded by both police and army personnel all the way to the very highest echelons. These days, he is very fragile, his thoughts and actions unfocused, but he still rides around on his huge gold chariot, mounts his golden throne, and celebrates his birthdays with an enormously extravagant and wasteful pomp that attracts the scorn of most and the blinded fervour of his devotees.
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Many Notable Sathya Sai Baba Cult Leaders Resign
2011-02-18 01:05:00
One of the potent, indirect damages to the Sathya Sai Organization comes via the concerned activities of very large numbers of those who are non-devotee family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers in the professions, business, fellow college and students, etc. These well-wishers of devotees actively confront followers in a way those such critical writers could never directly achieve. Sathya Sai Baba and his leaders tell followers that they must not look at the critical writing - especially on the internet - about their leader and organization. Fortunately, this constraint does not apply to those non-devotees who keenly wish for the well-being of those they know who are Sai Baba followers. This very large group of well-wishers who DO examine the critical material are often no fools at all, and come from many socio-cultural, educational backgrounds. They are able to form their own independent view about whether prominent critics write with acceptable tones of public discourse....
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Can Tomorrow?s Indian Citizens March Like Today?s Egyptians?
2011-02-13 01:01:00
Kind reader, please indulge me an acute understatement: Exposing Sathya Sai Baba, and that core of servitors who exercise control over his worldwide cult, has not been easy. Crowded around him, like a protective phalanx, have long been Indian presidents, prime and ministers, many ministers and civil service heads from both State and Central governments, Supreme and High Court judges, heads of police, the armed services, foreign service, foremost industrialists, financiers .... and a long list more of India's social, political and cultural elites. As I watched the footage of brave Egyptian citizens risking their lives to unseat a leader and government they believe have sorely betrayed the people, my mind reflected back to the courage ? to take but one example ? of thousands of Indian citizens who accompanied Mahatma Gandhi on the great salt marches.
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Will V.P.B. Nair Keep His Word To BBC On Sathya Sai Baba?
2011-02-07 23:45:00
In mid 2004, former Andhra Pradesh Home Secretary, V.P.B. Nair spoke to the BBC in its 2004 television documentary - 'The Secret Swami' - about the official corruption that attended the police killings in Sathya Sai Baba 's bedroom in June 1993. He said he intended to take steps to get the case re-opened. I again ask: has Nair done what he told the BBC that he would do? And, indeed, hope that Indian citizens ask him: Have you, as you told the BBC that you would do, made efforts to keep your promise to see that there is a proper investigation into the killings at Puttaparthi?
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