There are those who "fast" and those who actually fast, with no breaks, midnight snacks or honey-and-lemon drinks for succour.
- Associated Press
- Baba Ramdev was not the only fasting swami in Dehradun’s hospital.
While India was captivated by Baba Ramdev's very public nine-day hunger strike, another sadhu, or Hindu ascetic, quietly died after a 116-day fast in protest against the rising pollution in the river Ganga, according to the head of the ashram he belonged to.
Swami Nigamandand, 34, died late Monday in a Dehradun hospital, the same one where Baba Ramdev was also admitted, Swami Shivanand, the founder and head of the Haridwar-based Matri Sadan Ashram, told India Real Time.
Yet, at the hospital, there were more people gathered around Baba Ramdev, who was discharged Tuesday than around the swami, who has long been near death. Unlike Baba Ramdev, Swami Nigamandand had no entourage, no well-oiled PR machine, no ministers trotting to see him and certainly no private jet.
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Swami Nigamandand had been fasting since February 19 against what he claimed was illegal mining and stone c [...]
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