Indian Ex-Chief Justice: “Wild,
Reckless Claims” about Sathya Sai Baba
At 'Call For Media and Government Investigation of
Sathya Sai Baba', see the article:
Indian Ex-Chief Justice: “Wild, Reckless Claims” about
Sathya Sai Baba
Posted by
Barry Pittard on April 29, 2011
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The following
article I have updated with some valuable links not
available at the time of writing - 28 August 2007. I
have, accordingly, withdrawn the old version, which,
however, read practically as this version, below.
Shortly before, and
since Sathya Sai Baba's death, news reports, both in
India and beyond, report an increasing number of Sai
devotees asking accountability and transparency
questions about the Sathya Sai Central Trust in India.
I shall briefly make
the point that investigative lawyers, media and devotees
at large will need to be alert to what former devotee
researchers and analysts have shown. This is that the
Sathya Sai Central Trust is not and amorphous,
homogeneous entity.
Long ago, Hari
Sampath (more recently a corporate software engineer)
writing as one who had been a member of Sathya Sai
Baba's Security and Intelligence Wing spoke of various
circles of knowledge and activity in the Trust members:
See: The
Sathya Sai Baba set-up: How it works
The picture is one
in which some members, allied with others outside the
Trust, are expert practitioners of the darker arts of
politics, law, finance, security, and so forth.
Whereas others are, by purpose-design, used for their
relative innocence of the realpolitik aspects. A
consortium of the cynical, on the one hand and the
naive, on the other. Nothing new, of course in the
world of power.