For a while yesterday, #Rampal was one of the top trending topics on Twitter. Not Jean-Pierre Rampal, the genius flautist who died in 2000â??but Rampal, a guru largely unknown to Westerners but notorious in his native India. How is it that a figure weâ??ve never heard of dominated social media for a day?
In fact, Rampalâ??s recent arrest shines a fascinating light on a guru culture thatâ??s easy for Americans to stereotype, but difficult to truly comprehendâ??maybe because itâ??s less foreign than it seems.
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