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Letters - Open questions
Letters
Monday 28th June
2004
It is excellent that Andrew Billen got the right message
from the BBC2 documentary Secret Swami (The Back Half, 21 June). However,
his wish that Sai Baba be confronted in interview is totally
unfulfillable, as he is protected at top government level in India and
only sworn devotees can get anywhere near him. He is heavily guarded by an
armed security force, both openly and by undercover plain-clothes agents
who are constantly present. Only two journalists have ever been granted
interviews, and only one had anything like genuine questions, and that was
long ago.
The donated-water projects that Billen mentions were not
studied properly by the BBC, for they have largely failed to work (except
for one at the ashram, which needed the water for its many visitors and
donors from abroad).
Robert Priddy
Nesoddtangen, Norway
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