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Agents Of God

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______________ Surajit Dasgupta ______________ People, especially apolitical Hindus, have got so used to hearing scandals involving the so-called saints that news of the type does not shock them anymore. To theologians, these scandals are but expected as they can tell a true spiritualist from a fake religious leader. As people drift away from faith, disillusioned with the present crop of evangelists, much as they may need faith in these stressful times, the solution is for commoners to graduate to being theologians NRI's murder: Five Swadhyay members arrested The Indian Express | AHMEDABAD, 4 JULY 2006: Five members of the Swadhyay Pariwar, a socio-religious organisation founded by Pandurang Shastri Athavale, were today arrested for allegedly clubbing to death killing non-resident Indian Pankaj Trivedi outside a club here on June 15. Two years before his death, Trivedi had written to Chief Minister Narendra Modi that he feared for his life at the hands of Parivar members.