COVER STORY
The psychology of how godmen come to control the minds of millions of devotees
Outlook Magazine - 16 September 2013
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Unless the new law translates into reality, voters will go for food, not promises, in their bellies.
The two laws seem Latin and Greek to the people in Amethi and Rae Bareli
60 per cent of its children are underweight and malnourished. Infrastructure too is in disarray
But what about the continued neglect by the government of health and education?
Government officials themselves admit in private that bogus ration cards are circulating in some districts
Rumours about being eliminated from the beneficiary list spread faster than actual information
<i>Outlook</i> tours seven states to assess if rural India is impressed by UPA’s belated largesse
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Unless the new law translates into reality, voters will go for food, not promises, in their bellies.
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The two laws seem Latin and Greek to the people in Amethi and Rae Bareli
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60 per cent of its children are underweight and malnourished. Infrastructure too is in disarray
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But what about the continued neglect by the government of health and education?
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Government officials themselves admit in private that bogus ration cards are circulating in some districts
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Rumours about being eliminated from the beneficiary list spread faster than actual information
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How is anyone going to cook the free grains?
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<i>Outlook</i> tours seven states to assess if rural India is impressed by UPA’s belated largesse
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Whose war does Obama want to fight in Syria? Al Qaeda’s?
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The 11-year-old writer on being crowned Britain’s first child genius and ‘sniffing and licking’ her books
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One of those films that you watch impassively and forget soon after. It just leaves you cold and aloof.
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Imagine this so-called godman being made to undergo a potency test. Ultimate insult to me
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