My readers may well have a keen sense of déjà vu as they read the piece on Ireland. Inescapably one thinks of Sathya Sai Baba, his key officials in the international Sathya Sai Organization and successive local, state and central

Right now, a media furore is erupting in India, which relates to the "leaked" details of the Judge Liberhan Commission report, a 17-year inquiry into the tumultuous 1992 Ayodhya Mosque demolition. A number of the figures very seriously named are

CNN-IBN ( CNN-India Broadcast News) is an English language Indian TV news channel lauched in 2005. The network is a partnership between Global Broadcast News (GBN) and Turner International (Turner) in India. Rajdeep Sardesai is the Editor-in-Chief of the network.

For more recent readers in particular, this series points to some of my articles at Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba - http://barrypittard.wordpress.com - on Sathya Sai Baba and his global sect, extending to January 2007.

As part of his huge and challenging opus on Sathya Sai Babaa, the Australian academic Brian Steel has written about questions surrounding Sathya Sai Baba's birthdate. This is contained in Chapter 5 of his ' Omniscience and Truth' (Revised and

Unimaginable splurgings of pomp, ceremony and conspicuous waste attend, year after year, Sathya Sai Baba's imperial-like birthday celebrations. The global financial meltdown will not have melted down his vast reserves of gold.

But soon never comes ...

In 2000 came the publication of three articles in Nexus magazine (August-September). A person close to me, who knew well that I had deafened my ears to anything inimical to Sathya Sai Baba, strongly urged me to read these articles,

Below follows my excerpt from a witnessing document from the former head of the Australian Sathya Sai Organization, Terry Gallagher. The full document is available here: Terry Gallagher's Testimony

Date: 01-01-05.

Among many attempts to awaken India to the great danger posed by chronic addiction to swamis, gurus and the like, India's foremost rationalist the late B.Premanand tried to arouse government, media, legal and public accountability. The odds he faced were

Recently, because there was the giving of a name and phone number, I replied to a note from one who would part company with the testimony of David and Faye Bailey , of whom I wrote in the recent article.

Even before the worldwide onslaught of revelations - greatly facilitated by the sudden, dynamic growth of the Internet - of Sathya Baba's serial and widespread sexual abuse of boys and young men (and other abuses far beyond), well-loved devotees like

Many individuals who have led lives of dedicated service, both in the Sathya Sai Organization and well beyond it, have left Sai Baba for the most prinicipled reasons. In a moment, I shall come to the case of the former

Shortly before Christmas 1997, a highly capable and lovely person,with whom I worked among orphans at Puttaparthi, Maria Quoos, a Polish film and stage actress and businesswoman, came anxiously to me . She is now leader of the Polish Sathya

After our urgent, coordinated actions, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie were - indeed within minutes - prevented from visiting Sai Baba at Whitefield near Bangalore. They were about ten minute's drive away from his ashram

Serguei Badaev was ex-President of the Sathya Sai Organization's Moscow centre, ex-deputy National Coordinator, and National Sathya Sai Education in Human Values (SSEHV) Coordinator for Russia. He is a biology graduate from Moscow University and an educator.

Links to websites and blogsites critical of Sathya Sai Baba, India's most famous living guru, who claims to be God fully incarnate, come to save the world, effectively in his own lifetime

There is an ignoring, while one is still a member of a questionable group, of what apostates, looking back on their process, have called 'warning flags'. The rationalising and psychological denial factors loom, but not so large as to cause

Those who defend Sathya Sai Baba and his global cult would tirelessly denigrate and defame all who seriously question him and his Sathya Sai Organization. Quite apart from former followers and other critics, their targets include leading journalists and broadcasters