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INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS, JOURNALS, RADIO/TV PROGRAMMES AND FILMS HAVE EXPOSED SATHYA SAI BABA AS A CHARLATAN

• CHRONICLE ON SAI BABA'S DEMISE: ILLNESS, DEATH, FUNERAL AND AFTERMATH with links
• MYSTERY OVER SAI'S CASKET Zee New report on urgent order for casked April 4th
• THE PRESS ETC. ON SAI FOLLOWERS/VISITORS NUMBERS in severe conflict from diverse sources
• 'THE SECRET SWAMI' BBC DOCUMENTRY - EXCERPTS - TRANSCRIPTS & KEY VIDEO CLIPS
• ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA - SATHYA SAI BABA
• BBC OBITUARY Indian Guru Sai Baba
• INDIA TODAY MAGAZINE Cover story on 75th birthday and on-going controversy
• THE MONTREAL GAZETTE 16/4/2011 Miracles by 'Godman' just simple tricks
• CNN REPORT ON SAI BABA - Exposure of Sathya Sai Baba by critics on major Indian TV programme
• U.S. DEPUTY OF STATE WARNING TO TRAVELLERS iN 2001 The US State Department issued a warning to travellers in Andhra Pradesh - which officials confirmed related primarily to Sathya Sai Baba. This warning has never been revoked, though since 2007 it ceased to figure in the official document.
• SUNDAY PEOPLE - PAEDOPHILE GURU IN BID TO SNARE CHARLES On MI6 investigations etc.
• 'DIVINE DOWNFALL' OF SAI BABA by the journalist Mick Brown of the Daily Telegraph
• SECRET SWAMI Increasing numbers of former followers are alleging that Sri Satya Sai Baba, India's biggest spiritual leader, has sexually abused them or their families. This World investigates.
• 'SEDUCED' BY SAI BABA - 1-hr documentary. Excerpts or the whole film.
• THE GUARDIAN the paedophilia claims and the Duke of Edinburgh awards
• NEXUS MAGAZINE SAI BABA EXPOSED Dissident Duncan Roads presents testimonies
• NEXUS MAGAZINE Duncan Roads replies to attacks on the exposé
  
• BBC NEWS Sai Baba: God-man or con man?
  17 Jun 2004 ... Basava Premanand is India's leading guru-buster. He believes that the country's biggest spiritual leader, Sri Satya Sai Baba, is a charlatan and must be exposed. SEE ALSO HERE
  
• BBC RADIO 4 INTERVIEWS WITH EXPOSERS AND DEFENDERS IN 2000
• BRITISH NEWSPAPER REVIEWS OF BBC DOCU. 'THE SECRET SWAMI' The Observer, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Daily Mirror, Time Out etc...
• 'THE TIMES' - Three articles by Dominic Kennedy on sex and suicide victims of the guru
• U.K. 'DAILY MIRROR' ARTICLE On 'The Secret Swami'
• SUNDAY MIRROR - CRACKDOWN ON PREYING CULTS
• INDIA TODAY - REPORT ON SAI BABA
• THE HINDUSTAN TIMES - VIR SANGHVI
• 'THE CARAVAN' June 1st, 2010, the Indian magazine edited by Vishal Arora, published an extensive article about Sathya Sai Baba and his ashrams. If unavailable, see here.
  
• INDIA'S 'SUNDAY' MAGAZINE ORIGINAL REPORT ON SAI BABA - 1993 Including report on P.C. Sorcar's visit to Sai BABA & Dr. H. Narasimhaiah’s views
• VANCOUVER SUN on sex abuse by Sai Baba
• THE ASIAN NEWS Living gods facing purge
• MUMBAI MIRROR Followers of Shirdi Sai Baba file case against devotees of Sathya Sai
• MUMBAI MIRROR June 2011 Sai Baba prayed to Ganesha & Krishna
• SEX ABUSE CHARGE TO PUBLIC PROSECUTOR AGAINST SSB BY JENS SETHI
• CRIMINAL IN MONK ROBES - INDIA DAILY
• INDIA'S 'SUNDAY' MAGAZINE REPORT ON THE SATHYA SAI BEDROOM MURDER COVER-UP
• POST-OBITUARY - HUFFINGTON POST by Sreedhar Pillai
• THE NEW YORK TIMES 'A GOD IS DEAD' with comments
• THE VANCOUVER SUN ARTICLE Support for Sai Baba, but also criticisms
• THE NATIONAL 'OTTAWA CITIZEN' Sai Baba, 75th birthday and more
• FROM 'THE NEW STATESMAN' UK Comment on Andrew Billen's review of 'The Secret Swami'
• SCANORAMA -SAS' FLIGHT MAGAZINE on Sai Baba etc.
• GRAND OL' OPRAH OR SAI BABA Review in Australia of Danish documentary 'Seduced by Sai Baba'
• THE ANANTAPUR JOURNALISTS' UNION'S QUESTIONS which remained unanswered while all facts were effectively covered up and suppressed.
• 'THE WEEK' [INDIAN MAGAZINE] COVERAGE OF THE 1993 MURDERS A detailed examination of the facts as they emerged not long after the event
• THE PIONEER (Indian newspaper) on the Sai Baba bedroom murders
• ARGENTINIAN TV PROGRAMME TRANSCRIPT - part one by Alejandro Agnostelli
• ARGENTINA EXPOSURE OF SATHYA SAI BABA - part two by Alejandro Agnostelli
• 'SEDUCED BY SAI BABA' - NATIONAL DANISH BROADCASTING - TRANSCRIPT OF COMMENTARY
• HINDUSTAN TIMES 'THE TRUTH ABOUT SATYA SAI BABA'
• HINDUSTAN TIMES Blind faith: bizarre babus & folowers
  
• THE TIMES - OBITUARY OF SAI BABA
• NEW YORK TIMES - GURUBUSTER PREMANAND
• THE GUARDIAN - 'SPIRITUAL DEPTHS'
• GUARDIAN - SATHYA SAI BABA - EARTHLY GOD MAN
• THE GUARDIAN pedophilia claims and Duke of Edinburgh Award
  
• THE TELEGRAPH OBITUARY - SATHYA SAI BABA - by G. Chamberlain
• THE TELEGRAPH OBITUARY by Editorial board
• THE TELEGRAPH - SAI BABA - HOARDED WEALTH
• THE INDEPENDENT OBITUARY - with Lewis Wolpert on miracles and debunkers
• THE INDEPENDENT ON SAI BABA'S LEGACY
• THE INDEPENDENT - PREMANAND
• THE RATIONALIST - Sanal Edamaruku
• TEHELKA'S EXPOSURE OF SATHYA SAI BABA, 2000
• TELEGRAPH INDIA - BASAVA PREMANAND ON GURUBUSTING
• THE SCOTSMAN - OBITUARY
• TIME MAGAZINE (U.S.A.) Obituary
• THE STATESMAN - 1993 MURDERS Leading English daily publ. in Calcutta, Siliguri and New Delhi.
• THE INDIAN EXPRESS- BANGALORE - bangalore Bid on Sathya Sai Baba's Life
• THE TIMES OF INDIA - SUICIDES due to claims and promises SB has made
• TIMES OF INDIA Cash Haul on Bus
• INDIAN PRESS ON FAILED GODMEN 2014 Indian Times and One India
• ASIAN NEWS: 'LIVING GODS FACE PURGE'
• 'BILD' Munich - Jens Sethi 'Guru wants sex'
• 'THE AGE' AUSTRALIA - SCANDAL ENGULFS GURU'S EMPIRE
• ASIANS IN MEDIA NEWS COMMENT ON BBC 2's 'The Secret Swami'
• HOLY FURORE RAGES IN BRITAIN - DNA
• MURDERS - DAILY NEWS AND ANALYSIS
• IBN - GOLD REMOVED FROM SB ASHRAM ON THE SLY?
• THE PHENOMENON OF SAI BABA - The Hindu - Published after his death
• THE HUFFINGTON POST - Whatever happened to Sai Baba
• WISHESH WEB SITES REPORT MURDER THREAT BY SAI TRUST MEMBERS against relative of SB
• 'UNHOLY' NEXUS POLITICIANS-'GODMEN - NDTV
• HINDUSTAN TIMES 'Bizarre Babas'
• INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE ON HOAX OR HOLY MAN?
• NEWSCOMMANDO.COM Was Sai Baba's caregiver Satyajit giving sleeping pills forcefully to Baba?
• BBC RADIO Sai Baba, holy guru whose wisdom is profound. Or a sexual predator?
• BASAVA PREMANAND on BBC - It's My Story
• NDTV NEWS UNHOLY NEXUS Godmen enjoy political patronage
• ASIAN VOICE - FLAWED JOURNALISM BY PAYAL NAIR and refusal to admit valid comments to smears
  

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