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The land of Amma and ‘omerta’

Disclaimer: This post is not to cast aspersions on Mata Amritanandamayi or her Ashram. It is for the readers to decide their allegiance. So there A somewhat inconspicuous sentence in a report on the latest controversy involving the Mata Amritandamayi Ashram in Kerala, published in the National Standard this Sunday, caught my eye. It read “… prominent dailies in Kerala remained silent on the issue”. To the unititated, the “issue” was the alleged sexual exploitation and promiscuity involving senior members of the ashram, on which a foreign national had chosen to author a book. The person in question had been an attendant to Amma (as Mata Amritanandamayi is popularly referred to) for close to two decades. I am yet to read the book, but I am positive that the revelations in it may not really be a powder keg. Going by the rate at which godmen and their institutions are involved in controversies, the day may not be far-off when they get slotted along with corrupt politicos (or a