Sunday Editorial How to make sense of Anna, Baba and then find our own political position: and what are they up to? By Ratnakar Tripathy . Anyone familiar with tales from Mahabharata and Ramayana will have a good idea of the importance of renouncers [sanyasis] in the world of secular governance. The very fact that they had no worldly ambitions often put them above the level of kings. One cannot claim that it was a happy co-existence between the king and the rishi all the time – remember Vishwamitra? But the clashes between the two were certainly not a daily occurrence, if the epics are... 

Anna supports Baba: ‘I will join Guru Ramdev on June 5’, says Hazare New Delhi: according to the latest reports on news channels, Anna Hazare has expressed support for Baba Ramdev’s protest fast against black money. Hzare even said that he will join the Guru Ramdev on June 5. To quote Hazare’s statement to a TV channel, ‘I will join Baba Ramdev on June 5. The fight is against corruption. I will talk to Baba on how to go forward on the fight against corruption. The government has tried to cheat us. The government had assured us that they would look into our demand’. ... 

Baba Ramdev is against corruption, for sure: but is he also against democracy? Bhopal: according to the latest reports, Ramdev Baba has asserted that the prime minister should be excluded from the purview of the proposed Lokpal Bill.  To quote him while talking to the press, he said the following: ‘It is a very complicated question whether the prime minister and the chief justice of India should be brought under Lokpal bill or not. The person who decides the fate of 121 crore people in democracy should not be given into the hands of bureaucrats.’ The statement came during his ‘Swabhiman... 

Baba Ramdev threatens to enter politics: how the political parties in India see it! Lucknow, Allahabad, Jhansi: the context for this post is Baba Ramdeo’s threat to float his own political party coming summer and also the long series of attacks and defence of Baba Ramdeo by politicians of different hues in recent days. Baba Ramdeo is single-mindedly against the black money hoarded in foreign banks by Indians – this seems to be his single political article of faith so far.  Baba Ramdeo is a religious leader who unlike most, keeps teetering on the edge of politics, threatening to enter...