Swami, Baba and media

IN Media Watch Briefs | 14/06/2011

Swami Nigmananda, fasting for almost four months to protest illegal mining and stone crushing along the Ganga near Haridwar, died at the Himalayan hospital in Jollygrant in Dehradun on Monday. He was admitted in the same hospital as Baba Ramdev. Ironically it was only after paying with his life, that he found time and space in the media unlike Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare who got blanket coverage.

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