--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So is this real? > > > > Too grand a gesture for your taste, Unc? > > > > http://www.maharishividyamandir.com/ > > > > http://www.maharishividyamandir.com/ListofMVM.htm > > MVM Schools > > It would be neat if it were true. But it's just a web page, > Lawson. Two web pages. *Lots* of charity scams have > put together such "documentation" of "what they've > accomplished." > > Show me real documentation. Show me an article from > an unbiased Indian newspaper in which the reporter went > to each of these locations and counted the students. Then > and only then will I believe it.
All 200? There's 1400+ hits for google for "maharishi vidya mandir"... Here's a few apparently independent websites that mention it: http://www.hindu.com/yw/2005/07/08/stories/2005070801020600.htm Kondapur http://learning.indiatimes.com/school/pages/homepages/chennai/chnschlp /mvm1.htm Chetpet http://www.hindu.com/yw/2005/04/15/stories/2005041500330600.htm Chetput http://www.chathurangam.com/cityresults/cbse2k2.asp Chennai http://newstodaynet.com/23may/cs5.htm Chennai http://www.sofworld.org/html2003/top10.shtml GUWAHATI http://kshitij.org/gallery03k-1st-11.htm Bhopal http://kshitij.org/gallery03k-1st-12.htm Tiruvannamalai http://www.indiaatbest.com/edu_best_sc.htm#M Lucknow http://www.schoolsindia.org/schoolmaint/comprespage.php Hosur http://www.indianchild.com/schools_in_madurai.htm MADURAI http://www.calonline.com/oncampus/school_delhisouth.html New Delhi http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/01sep16/state.htm JAMMU > > I'm sorry to appear to be so jaded, but I've watched these > "proclamations of success" for 40 years or so, and almost > *all* of them have been either outright lies or hopeful > fantasies. If you can find and post a real followup article > with a non-TM source that indicates that the number of > schools and that the number of students claimed is > accurate, I will heartily applaud the effort. > > And at the same time, I will STILL condemn the TMO and > Maharishi for taking one of the most easily-learned and > potentially-valuable techniques of meditation off the market > and making it unavailable to all but a privileged few. The > paradigm is clear, Lawson -- only those who *deserve* to > meditate get to learn to meditate. You either have to have > enough money to pay the unconsionably high prices, or > you have to be someone whose story or photo or both we > can use to generate more revenue. No one else matters. 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/
