The gods that failed

March 11, 2016 12:03

'It now lies established on sound authority that the three-day World Culture Festival set for flag-off tomorrow is a cocktail of administrative impropriety and environmental violation and transgression. A probe committee set up by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has recommended that Art of Living (AOL), Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's global mainsail, be "responsible for funding the restoration plan as penalty" for the wanton manner of its trampling on the Yamuna floodplain. It estimated the cost for AOL to bear between Rs 100-120 crore.'

Sankarshan Thakur writes in The Telegraph of the gods that stand arrayed on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's side, in reality the gods that failed, here.

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