Archana Jahagirdar & others, on Sri Sri Ravishankar and the following he has gathered: It has always been the land of spiritual dreams. But now it’s mostly nightmares that are available here. Home to seers and saints, India, once a rich repository of mystical knowledge and experience, has been transformed into an assembly-line producing godmen by the dozen. But Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is in a different league. http://bit.ly/1cUB9sC
Saba Naqvi, on the controversy over sale of the Juhu Centaur in Mumbai: Less than a year after Outlook broke the story about irregularities in the disinvestment of Juhu Centaur hotel in Mumbai, the CAG has confirmed the deal was not all above board. Now, Outlook has learnt that Ajit Kerkar of Tulip Hospitality Services, which bought the hotel, is on the verge of selling the facility to a consortium of three builders. http://bit.ly/1L2tHqv
5 Years Ago
Anuradha Raman, on how a JNU student’s work turned into a book by Bihar CM Nitish Kumar: By all accounts, the synopsis that Atul Kumar Singh wrote on Bihar in 2006 for a PhD at JNU was outstanding. His supervisor, economist Praveen Jha at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, said it was indeed excellent. In 2009, however, Singh’s research paper emerged as a book. Author: Nitish Kumar, the honourable chief minister of Bihar. http://bit.ly/1e21xkp
