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<\/a>On January 9th, 2009 Rajeev Dixit founded the Bharat Swabhiman Movement along with Baba Ramdev. A Telecom scientist who had worked with multinationals and returned to work on the rejuvenation of India \u2013 specially rural India, fought against the exploitation of the Foreign companies, corruption amongst the Politicians and Bureaucrats and the need to resuscitate the Indian knowledge base. His knowledge and ability to assimilate so many areas \u2013 history, economics, law and politics made his speeches a hit. A young person, whose audio cassettes were a big hit amongst the masses and youtube videos a hit with the online audience died young recently. Unfortunately, and intriguingly, the entire National media<\/a> blanked out his death.<\/p>\nBaba Ramdev, the Yoga teacher who has made it his mission to teach Yoga to as many people he can reach, used his platform to propagate the very serious and well articulated issues that Rajeev Dixit would raise. They had a very simple set of 5 goals<\/a>:<\/p>\n The people in the movement took just 5 vows:<\/p>\n Given how the focus in the Indian economy has moved away from the poor and the entire economic process been captured by the wealthy and corrupt, this direction made sense for the resurgence of a holistic India or rather Bharat. <\/p>\n Vishwa Bandhu Gupta, an ex Additional Commissioner of Income Tax saw through the level and expanse of the corruption and the money laundering during his time when he oversaw the Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme (VDIS). He was suspended when he came out to expose the corruption. Recently, a jawan Mitu Singh Rathore<\/a> went to attend Baba Ramdev\u2019s Free Yoga Camp. Baba Ramdev, used the platform to share the message of Bharat Swabhiman that he and others he calls on his platform \u2013 like Rajeev Dixit and Vishwa Bandhu Gupta \u2013 have shared from time to time. The guy, who had come on his own volition to a camp which was free was \u201cdisappointed\u201d that he didn\u2019t get to do enough \u201cyoga\u201d as was \u201cpromised\u201d and hurled a shoe at the Yoga Guru.<\/p>\n Now, If one were to look at the above incidents and try to see the importance and seriousness of it, one would assume that the incredible mass movement and awareness generated by Baba Ramdev along with Rajeev Dixit \u2013 and the latter\u2019s early death; along with the expose\u2019 from Vishwa Bandhu Gupta an ex-IRS officer would be very important.<\/p>\n But what does the media and the copy cat bloggers<\/a> focus on? Yes, the guy who went to a free Yoga camp on his own, who was disappointed that he didn\u2019t get his money\u2019s and time\u2019s worth, and refused to leave through the open door without slamming his shoe at the Baba for consumer dis-satisfaction. Interestingly, instead of finding fault with the guy \u2013 who was clearly out of his mind (and maybe even financed by Baba\u2019s detractors) \u2013 the media and the bloggers seem to find Baba Ramdev at fault!<\/p>\n And if that kind of close-minded and blind follow the first idiotic \u201cjournalist\u201d to the ditch wasn\u2019t enough, the smart-ass commenters seem to suggest that somehow Politics and Spirituality doesn\u2019t gell together. Such people, of course, haven\u2019t heard about Guru Nanak Dev (who talked about the madness of Babar\u2019s killings in Lahore and about several social issues) and the rest of the Gurus including Guru Gobind Singh, Kabir (who commented a lot of the social structure of his time) Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Rabindranath Tagore, Gandhi etc. All the popular Spiritualists in the past have been fully engaged in public life. Spiritual pursuits have no meaning without full engagement with life in all its dimensions. And politics or social issues have interested the Spiritual leaders as much as the Eternal has. They don\u2019t differentiate between the two.<\/p>\n But then this mass of educated, smart ass uninterested but fully caustic media writers open another front. <\/p>\n How can you compare Baba Ramdev with Vivekananda?<\/p>\n Hello? Did I bring the imagined dichotomy between Spirituality and Politics? <\/p>\n Here is a guy \u2013 Baba Ramdev \u2013 who gets up every morning with the aim to help people come out of their lazy and sedentary life styles and make Yoga asanas a part of their daily routine. The kriyas, the proper eating, asanas, the herbal medicines \u2013 things that the New Age in the US swear by and something that the Alternative Medicine enthusiasts in the West go after \u2013 are pitched to the poor and the rural across the length and breadth of the country. The Yoga camps which have introduced this health enhancing gift from the ancients \u2013 and cost an arm and a leg in the US and even in Mumbai \u2013 are offered free! Yet, the educated have an issue.<\/p>\n That the Baba Ramdev believes that his platform also should propagate against the ills of the society and the high and mighty is his prerogative. He has built his platform, audience and brand through his dedication and hard work \u2013 one healthy body after another \u2013 over the many years. What he does with it is completely and SOLELY within his powers. Has anyone ever ever questioned why Sachin Tendulkar sells a brand? Or why a musician gives a social interest message?<\/p>\n The truth is that two things are at play here:<\/p>\n Delibrate and Malicious Campaign against Baba Ramdev by the Government:<\/b> Remember in 2006, MP Brinda Karat had accused Baba Ramdev of selling Herbal Remedies made out of \u201cHuman Bones\u201d<\/a>? She further alleged that it was based on report by a laboratory of the Health Ministry. Brinda, a Christian<\/a> who is at the helm of the Communist Part of India (Marxist) \u2013 which nevertheless promotes atheism, but that is another story \u2013 had made a huge hue and cry about the human remains in Ramdev\u2019s medicines. Today its April of 2011. If indeed so many human remains were being used in the huge amount of medicine prepared by the Baba\u2019s Ayurvedic laboratory, pray, why wasn\u2019t he indicted?<\/p>\n\n
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\nHe showed how the money was stashed by Congress MPs \u2013 specifically Sonia Gandhi \u2013 and the extent of corruption that was being engaged in.<\/p>\n