INDIA, March 12, 2016 (Daily O by Michael Fischman): As an American visiting India to participate in Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s WCF, I have been shocked at the way the media has covered the controversy over the event. I find it deplorable that in the reporting of the alleged Yamuna flood plain degradation and NGT response – the media continues to consistently take a position of condemning the Art of Living Foundation.
The condemnation is simply based on limited information and reports presented to NGT. One would have hoped that the media would be a little more impartial in its reporting and give Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and AOLF the benefit of the doubt, or at the very least, acknowledge his decades worth of work in protecting the environment.
Days before an amazing event which puts India in the limelight for championing cultural diversity and world peace on an unprecedented scale, the media is tearing the event apart and seems to only have the objective of embarrassing Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and his organisation. Thus far, there is no substantial proof that the festival will cause any permanent damage to the river bed. Yet the media appears to have made a judgement and condemned Sri Sri’s event even before impartial investigation into the allegations.
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