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bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/team-annas-funds-and-funders-krishen-kak/

Team Anna’s funds and funders: An analysis – Krishen Kak



Excerpt at top:

[color="#0000FF"]“Is it coincidence that, for example, so much money has been given to the Kejriwala NGOs when the Kejriwalas are openly and rabidly anti-democratic? Is it coincidence that the Ford Foundation’s own country, for all its pro-democracy propaganda, has a history of propping up dictators all over the world? Has the Ford Foundation no agenda behind the money it doles out? It has given millions of rupees to Kejriwala NGOs. Do you seriously believe it expects nothing in return from them?” – Krishen Kak[/color]

Most of the article is about the above.





But there's also this bit closer to the end:

Tailpiece

• For all his many, much-touted virtues, Anna Hazare (and Team Anna) had little time and compassion for those who took the threatened fast-unto-death seriously. In village Janapanka, Patna, a young and emotional Arun Das died fasting on 24 August. Team Anna expressed no regret. He hailed from Kamira village, district Boudh, Odisha. Worse, as youthful enthusiasts following the Anna fast noted, no formal notice was taken of his death and the report quickly vanished from the IAC update, though the IAC page on Facebook and @Janlokpal on Twitter had both announced the death.
  
  
  
  Arun Das was actually a follower of Baba Ramdev, and it was the Yoga Guru who first announced his death from Ramlila Maidan. Baba’s organisation also made a formal announcement. IAC followed on Facebook and Twitter, and then lapsed into inexplicable silence.
  
  
  
  See www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=1943.
  
  
  
  See aamjanata.com/arun-das-dies-at-janapanka-village-while-fasting-for-jan-lokpal/.
  
  
  
  
• A similar amnesia occurred in the case of Dinesh Yadav who, shouting pro-Hazare slogans, burnt himself alive at Kisan Ghat, Delhi – in.news.yahoo.com/disbelief-praise-fear-dinesh-yadavs-village-120413198.html.
  
  
  
  He was survived by his wife and five children.
  
  [color="#800080"](OH BRILLIANT!! Families are so overrated anyway, why not leave them orphaned and widowed and miserable for something as worthwhile as .... as "Team Anna". They're *so* reliable after all.
  
  And check out the other miracle: Ford Foundation etc sends money for stoking a revolution in India, yet without even paying extra, they get Hindus voluntarily offing themselves into the bargain.
  
  It's the mass delusion of the Gandhi mentality. Others were right all along - and I was entirely wrong (this was long ago, and I have seen sense for some time since): Gandhi should be completely exposed. Indians have become so infatuated with that dangerous man and his worthless methods that - rather than emulate Shivaji, which is who Hindus *should* emulate (him and Julian, but I think that last is wishing for the moon) - they will emulate the King of the Lemming Ideology: Gandhianism.
  
  And these people actually imagine that they benefit their population/nation with their worthless deaths - that's what beats me.)[/color]
  
  
  
  Team Anna expressed no regret. Team Anna, for all its foreign resources, is not known to have offered any support to the families of Arun Das and Dinesh Yadav.
  
  
  
  
• Contrast this with the case of Rajbala Malik, a victim of police brutality at Ramlila Maidan in the wee hours of June 4, 2011. As soon as his externment order from Delhi ended, Baba Ramdev visited Rajbala in hospital and offered all assistance by his Delhi Mahila Patanjali Yoga Samiti. “All medical expenses of Rajbala and other people injured during police action at Ramila Maidan will be borne by the Patanjali,” said Ramdev – expressbuzz.com/topnews/pm-politically-dishonest-baba-ramdev/281995.html .