Wow! the guy sounds like a real pussy! I'll have to call him out when I see him today. -Peter
--- rgjcm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Art of Fleeing: Sri Sri disciples deny report > > Times of India/January 11, 2005 > > Kathmandu -- Disciples of Indian spiritual guru Sri > Sri Ravi Shankar > have denied media reports that he left a south > Indian coastal > village in a hurry on receiving a tsunami alert. > An official from the guru's Art of Living Foundation > in Kathmandu > described the media report "misleading". > In a report headlined "Tsunami scare hits Sri Sri", > French news > agency AFP, which covered Ravi Shankar's visit last > week to > Akkrapattai, a tsunami hit fishing village in Tamil > Nadu, had given > a detailed account of the incident. > It said Ravi Shankar, who was scheduled to conduct a > healing session > for the traumatised fishing community of the > village, had > his "motorcade of luxury cars" swing round swiftly > and "onlookers > said he looked tense and was in a hurry to leave". > The report was splashed on the front page of a local > daily on > Sunday. > Mamta Kailkhura, coordinator of the communication > bureau of the Art > of Living Foundation, said, "Neither did the false > alarm scare the > founder nor did he flee." > In her letter, published in the daily on Tuesday, > Kailkhura said the > guru changed his plan about going to the village > since most of the > villagers had left following a false alarm about a > second tsunami > strike and the exodus made the road impossible to > drive through. > "Hence Sri Sri decided to change the plan and meet > hundreds of > victims waiting for him in the nearby relief camps," > she said. "Over > the last three days, Sri Sri, who cancelled some of > his programmes > in Europe to fly back to India, has been visiting > several relief > camps in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu... He has been > continuously > visiting the victims... In fact, the local > administration has > welcomed the initiatives of the foundation to start > a trauma relief > cell to help the victims..." > The Art of Living Foundation has units in Nepal. > Ravi Shankar had > visited Nepal late last year at the invitation of > Nepal Tourism > Board, the nodal tourism agency in the country, to > promote religious > tourism and portray Nepal as a safe destination. > > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
