Baba is great. He is selling aloevera juce @ 200/ per litre whre as market price it is around Rs.1000/ I feel his fruit juices are preservative free and healthy. More over he is propogating the ancient indian product.
Re: rather this than poopsi and choke
by cool dude on Apr 15, 2011 04:46 PM
seems most blogrs loves only colas.. thats wy comments.. r u living in india or what.. ppl still drinks own drinks lika mango,nira pani, awla chewing,and so on..
"In the United States, the yoga guru has also acquired an Ayurvedic medicine company in the name of Herbo Ved," Always againest the MNC of worldwide,Baba himself become MNC and now doing same thing at abord what earlier MNC has been doing here...So now Conflict himself...is not it..?
Re: Now Baba become MNC....
by Edward on Apr 15, 2011 04:41 PM
Be what you are and realise what your abilities are before giving expert advices over here.
Re: Now Baba become MNC....
by mandook on Apr 15, 2011 04:51 PM
But His "MNC" is spreading and not selling, Yoga. He sells healthy products, not like colas which are decidedly harmful.
drink from coca cola and pepsi cola bottles/cans by the million each day in India !
Baba Ramdev apparently is dedicated to eliminating this stupid habit of the Indian commoners. However, he would do much better if he directly castigates the millions of India's stupid middle class commoners who currently sustain the growth momentum of the two giant beverage MNCs, even when these MNCs are stagnating all across the rest of the world !!
Ramdev is not helping his cause by seeking to appease these stupid middle classes by avoiding direct criticism of the habit of drinking colas !!
Re: India's famously stupid middle classes
by Argumentative Indian on Apr 15, 2011 12:16 PM
You need to catch up with some of the other bloggers, that say 80% of Indians subsist on less than Rs. 20 per day!!!
I think the truth is somewhere in between the two of you.
I think, there are a number of poor people in INdia, who cannot afford to buy one coke / pepsi per annum, there are some rich people who drink a lot of the stuff, and there is a large group of middle class people who drink some amount of soft drinks, not by the millions please.
Re: Re: India's famously stupid middle classes
by piri on Apr 15, 2011 12:40 PM
I did not even remotely suggest that India's poor make up anything less than 80 % of its population !!
Various statistics by the UN HDI as well as by the world bank establish this fact. It is another matter that the Planning commission seeks to delude the nation by keeping a ridiculously low poverty line (capacity to purchase food that yields 2800 calories per day) !
I was talking about India's middle class, that section that increasingly gets taken in by new-age signs of 'change' and 'reforsm' and chooses to delude itself about what 'development' is !!
Re: Re: India's famously stupid middle classes
by piri on Apr 15, 2011 12:42 PM
And just 10 % of the Indian population drinks enough cola to power the MNCs' fortunes to an extent that 140 other countries do not give them !!
And is the term 'millions' any overestimation when talked about as a percentage of the Indian population ?
Re: India's famously stupid middle classes
by gaius octavian on Apr 15, 2011 11:36 AM
not as bad as smoking drinking and drugs,crusade against them first.they kill more people than these ever will
Re: Re: India's famously stupid middle classes
by Susan Held on Apr 15, 2011 11:39 AM
This is not a good argument. Just because one evil exists does not mean you should not try to wipe out other evils till the first one is gone. Its like saying not to create awareness about Swine Flu because HIV is a even more deadly issue.
Re: Re: India's famously stupid middle classes
by mandook on Apr 15, 2011 04:54 PM
This is just like saying that a student scoring 15% is better than that securing 12%!!! All unhealthy substances need to be eliminated by social boycott.Government and politicians have vested interests in allowing such products in the market.
Re: India's famously stupid middle classes
by gaius octavian on Apr 15, 2011 11:36 AM
not as bad as smoking drinking and drugs,crusade against them first.they kill more people than these ever will
Re: Re: India's famously stupid middle classes
by Susan Held on Apr 15, 2011 11:39 AM
This is not a good argument. Just because one evil exists does not mean you should not try to wipe out other evils till the first one is gone. Its like saying not to create awareness about Swine Flu because HIV is a even more deadly issue.
Re: Re: Re: India's famously stupid middle classes
by gaius octavian on Apr 15, 2011 11:54 AM
how are carbonated beverages evil? a minor nuisance maybe but evil? they are not addictive their health effects are no where as bad as other stuff dont make a mountain out of a molehill
Re: Re: Re: Re: India's famously stupid middle classes
by bigben bigben on Apr 15, 2011 04:48 PM
They deplete ground water. See the details of the dispute over Coke plant in Kerala several years ago.
Just because they set up a factory, they have no right to tap the groundwater which is a national resource.
Else they should pay for the groundwater. The issue is similar to 2G in a smaller scale.
Also it is proven that colas are not good for health. Many US schools have banned cola vending machines on campus. High sugar content causes obesity due to excess calories and can cause diabetes. India is already highly vulnerable to diabetes.
So dont make a virtue out of something that is clearly not.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: India's famously stupid middle classes
by gaius octavian on Apr 16, 2011 01:00 PM
i didnt say it's a virtue i said it's a minor nuisance which doesnt derserve a second glance ,and the ground water is an isolated occurence ,usually they use their own water .it imust have been a hair brain scheme of the plant manager to save some money.there are a lot of other ills in the society to focus on without carping on the little ones
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: India's famously stupid middle classes
by gaius octavian on Apr 16, 2011 01:00 PM
i didnt say it's a virtue i said it's a minor nuisance which doesnt derserve a second glance ,and the ground water is an isolated occurence ,usually they use their own water .it imust have been a hair brain scheme of the plant manager to save some money.there are a lot of other ills in the society to focus on without carping on the little ones
his new products against the norms specified by the US FDA !
That is good, definitely good ! It is certainly a big improvement over his earlier venture to market 'ayurvedic medicines' to the unsuspecting public ! In 2008, Baba Ramdev's ashram manufactured and marketed several health enhancing 'ayurvedic medicines'. However, when some of those who took these 'medicines' began taking severely ill, it began dawning that the culprit could be these 'medicines'. Activists bought samples of several batches of these 'medicines' from Baba's ashram and its dispensaries and had them tested for various parameters, among them for heavy metal contents. Shockingly, each of those samples yielded extremely high quantities (several fold higher than the WHO mandated maximum contents) of Arsenic, mercury, lead, antimony, etc. !!
When confronted, the Baba turned extremely evasive and sought to take cover by resorting to rabble rousing !
Perhaps that experience has made the Baba see wisdom and perhaps the decision to 'religiously follow' the FDA norms of the US this time might have come out of such new-found wisdom !!
Re: Baba Ramdev has apparently decided to benchmark
by Shri Hegde on Apr 15, 2011 11:15 AM
Very valid point, Ramdev is not god, but his cause and intentions are laudable. There have been mistakes and that needs to be highlighted and corrected.
Re: Re: Baba Ramdev has apparently decided to benchmark
by Argumentative Indian on Apr 15, 2011 11:24 AM
Yes. All of us, without exception, fall a thousand times as toddlers, before we learn to walk. But the desire to walk is the very foundation of progress. I am with Baba, hope he focusses on the safety, quality aspects more seriously and gets them right this time.
Re: Baba Ramdev has apparently decided to benchmark
by ashish anand on Apr 15, 2011 11:36 AM
In any other country, he would have been jailed for selling such medicines without any clinical trial. But here in india, such sort of people can take the high moral ground and do anything in the name of Ayurveda and top it with stance against corruption.
