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• Poruthiyil, Prabhir Vishnu (2019-08-03). "Big Business and Fascism: A Dangerous Collusion". Journal of Business Ethics. doi:10.1007/s10551-019-04259-9. ISSN 1573-0697.:-

  ...The response from the increasingly powerful right-wing sections of the media demonstrates the interpenetration of interests of Hindutva and neoliberalism. Seeking proximity to whichever party was in power, Vedanta had become a public backer of the BJP’s political agenda (The Wire 2018). Hindutva-afliated news outlets branded protestors part of an “anti-national” conspiracy funded by “Jihadis,” and even the Church of England (Subramani 2018; Venkatesan 2018), thus evoking prevailing prejudices against non-Hindus portrayed in Hindutva discourse as opposed, by default, to the “national interests” (narrowly interpreted as wealth creation). The corporation also received support from infuential babas like Jaggi Vasudev and Baba Ramdev, both of whom have sprawling business enterprises and considerable followings among the core supporters of Hindutva (Bhatia and Lasseter 2017). In a particularly insensitive choice of vocabulary, given the context, Vasudev declared: “Lynching large businesses is economic suicide” (quoted in The Indian Express 2018). These examples show how the doxa constituted by the interpenetration of neoliberalism and Hindutva results in the protection not just of economic but also of the sociocultural interests of the corporate elite in India. Adhering to the tenets of Hindutva is now considered essential for Indian neoliberalism...

Fake spiritual guru and World Economic Forum "agenda contributor", Sadhguru, openly advocates depopulating the planet, going on to suggest that people should have dogs instead of children. "I was in a conference and I said: 'Unless you reduce the human footprint on the planet, there is no solution for anything'. Then they asked me a brilliant question: 'How do you reduce the human footprint?'. I said: 'You have to reduce the number of feet. That's the only way'." full thing, here. Why isn't this in the article? 84.67.111.75 (talk) 14:39, 2 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This isn't a good source, you are using Twitter, it fails WP:RS. If he actually said that, then that is actually a good thing. There are far too many people on the planet. Psychologist Guy (talk) 18:00, 2 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Having looked at the Twitter account you cited "Wide Awake Media", it promotes global warming denialism, anti-vax and the pseudoscientific carnivore diet. It is not a reliable source for anything. Psychologist Guy (talk) 18:08, 2 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Dude, in the post there are links to interviews as sources, so it's the same situation as citing Wikipedia, which cites other sources. What is the content of the posting account is irrelevant.--Ruzweltus (talk) 14:58, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Have a read of WP:RS. We are not going to cite unreliable Twitter links. Psychologist Guy (talk) 20:12, 12 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

So how about citing sources that this tweet cites? Ruzweltus (talk) 22:47, 29 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Are those sources reliable? Answer that question and you will answer your own as well. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:05, 29 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Well, since the sources are youtube videos of Sadhguru HIMSELF talking about certain topics relevant (in this case issue of handling the population for example) and they are relatively recent, they should be taken as reliable sources, especially since this kind of source is used in this very article (See #63 reference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oC78A0YpQQ).

Topic mentioned by OP is certainly quite important and we should consider putting Sadhguru's notable opinion on it in the article despite the sources being used by controversial authors. Ruzweltus (talk) 22:23, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The line:

In 2019 he referred to a Muslim student in London as a "Taliban," for which he apologized after heavy criticism.

may suggest that Sadhguru deliberately insulted student or Muslim society. I think it would be more fair to present Sadhguru's point of view, which fortunately does appear at least in the apology statement linked as a reference, directly in the article. Having quoted sentence right after line with Sadhguru being occasionally perceived as Hindu nationalist, it may be misperceived by readers.

So i propose something like:

In 2019 he referred to a Muslim student in London as a "Taliban", for which he was heavily criticized - Sadhguru responded with an apology, explaining that he used arabic word "Taliban" as "Ardent student"

Yeah, it's longer and less concise, but it's less biased and that's important.

--Ruzweltus (talk) 14:58, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Sadhguru has been accused of having an affair with one of his followers and murdering his own wife. A case was filed against him in court by his own father -in-law....! This should be included in the controversy section. His pseudoscintific claims can hurt innocents...(https://sadhgurukilledhiswife.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/12.png) Exper-maelstrom (talk) 18:59, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. M.Bitton (talk) 20:23, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Not a single hint in the article about his chicken business. Sadhguru and/or fans are keeping very tight control of this article indeed, lol. 2602:306:C4CE:89F9:D571:6BC3:A68F:CA73 (talk) 06:14, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]