Monday, April 11, 2011

krishen kak: the company that hazare keeps; hazar(e)d warning?

apr 10th, 2011

in dubious company indeed. 

anything agnivesh the charlatan touches is mud (btw, what happened to his pal valson thampu, he of the 'miraculous' phd from allahabad agri univ, which arrived just in time for him to keep his principalship at st stephen's and his reservation of most of the seats for xtists?)

agnive-sharlatan i used to think was a useful idiot. not really, he is a jaichand/mir jafar.

excerpt:

“India Against Corruption” (IAC) is Anna Hazare’s address for his letter dt. 6/4/11 to the Prime Minister, and is therefore presumably the prime mover of this fast-unto-death. IAC describes itself as “an expression of collective anger of people of India against corruption”.  Those who started it include, besides Hazare himself, spiritual leaders Swami Ramdev and Sri Sri Ravishankar, religious leader Archbishop Vincent Concessao, a politician in the guise of a religious leader Swami Agnivesh, and three notables usually described as civil society activists: Kiran Bedi, Mallika Sarabhai, Arvind Kejriwal. In addition, “notable participants” include another now-notorious civil society activist, Medha Patkar.

 

Agnivesh has his own websites, his own political party, and is a “self-titled Arya Samaj scholar”. He has under his saffron robe the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award, the Right Livelihood Award, and the Rev. M.A. Thomas National Rights Award. He describes himself as “the most distinguished leader of the Arya Samaj” though this has been questioned, as has his fascination for Mother Teresa, his infatuation for Mother Sonia (“only light of hope of spirituality at end of dark tunnel”), and his unabashed admiration for Islam and Pakistan. 

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