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PG 04 << VIEWS & VISION OF CITY Volume: 12, Issue: 217 SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2021, MUMBAI 12 Pages, ₹2 /- RNI No. MAHENG/2009/29332 www.afternoonvoice.com Leaving with Pakistan president happiness, accuses India goodwill and for carry out very fond... terrorism... << PG 05 << PG 06 Aam Aadmi Party, Mumbai helped 2000+ Covid-19 Patients Newsmakers Bureau conceptualized and launched Pravin Lotankar, Kunal Pawar, afternoon_voice the #AAPDegaSaath Helpline Ratnabh Mukerjei and senior AAP Mumbai 7718812200, on 15th April leaders like Sumitra Srivastava n the past eight days, the 2021. and Dwijendra Tiwari who are Task Force Members Aam Aadmi Party Mumbai AAP leaders and volunteers working night and day. team has helped 2000+ take calls of citizens who seek “It is indeed sad that we + Mithila Naik Satam, Kunal Pawar, and Manu Pillai, I conceptualized and launched the #AAPDegaSaath Helpline patients who have had a Covid hospital admission, move to an cannot resolve all cases, 7718812200, on 15th April 2021. emergency. It may not seem like ICU, oxygen, medicines, and/or because there is an acute plasma. They then liaise with shortage of all things, starting a very large number in the sea of Take calls of citizens who seek hospital admission for move this Pandemic, but in a the authorities, hospitals, from O2 beds. Yesterday, the + to an ICU, oxygen, medicines, and/or plasma. resource-starved city, we are doctors, and suppliers on behalf scene was so tragic that proud and relieved of every of the patient, and resolve the hospitals were hesitant to admit Received 700 calls daily on an average, and managed to single life we could help save. issues. very serious patients, whose + resolve approximately 300 cases daily. When, in the first two weeks In these past 8 days, they have oxygen requirement of April, AAP Mumbai leaders, received 700 calls daily on was high, as they like Preeti Sharma Menon and average, and they have managed just didn't have even breakdowns, when they in this biggest crisis that has hit Ruben Mascarenhas, were to resolve approximately 300 enough oxygen” are unable to save a life, so our beloved Mumbai, bigger overwhelmed with the calls for cases daily. Led by Ruben said Preeti Sharma much so that they are now even than terror attacks push us help; AAP Mumbai Task Force Mascarenhas, the team includes Menon. starting counselling for them to to do more and more. Members Mithila Naik Satam, so many more - youngsters like The volunteers are going deal with this trauma. Kunal Pawar, and Manu Pillai Manu Pillai, Mithila Naik Satam, through stress, heartache and “Yet, the need to help people CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Ma Anand Sheela - Woman who created and destroyed Osho oday there are hundreds of documentaries and news reports of the Rajneesh movement. and interviews of Sheela Ambalal Patel, who later become Sheela married Marc Harris Silverman, an American and She TMa Anand Sheela. She was the youngest of six children of moved to India in 1972 to pursue spiritual studies with her husband. the Gujarati couple Ambalal and Maniben Patel. At the age of 18, They became disciples of the Indian guru Rajneesh and Sheela took she moved to the United States and pursued her education there. the name Ma Anand Sheela. After her husband died, Sheela married Her father was a staunch follower of a self-styled Godman, a fellow Rajneesh follower, John Shelfer. Acharya Rajnish. As the secretary of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh from 1981 through That’s how she was introduced to Osho. In 2018, the 1985, she managed the Rajneeshpuram ashram in Wasco County, documentary Wild Wild Country was released, which includes Oregon, United States. interviews with Sheela, she says her father insisted she stay in In 1986, she pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assault for Dr.Vaidehi Rajnish Aashram. that how later on she became the spokeswoman CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 afternoonvoice.com/editorial [email protected] afternoon_voice afternoonvoicenews SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2021 Editoritis AFTERNOON VOICE, MUMBAI 02 AAP Mumbai Ma Anand Sheela - Woman who helped created and destroyed Osho 2000+ COVID << patients PAGE 1 probably have reconciled well with the commune. The local battles between Sheela along with her gang and the << PAGE 1 her role in the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack. Not everyone at people living over there sadly created a huge mania about Osho Rajneeshpuram was comfortable with Sheela’s attitude and the across the United States and in reaction to which he was We are sharing our story in way she handled public relations. eliminated and deported in the end. the hope that more people And many people were not happy with her administration at 1986, she pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assault for choose to help out, and more the Ranch. In fact, quite a few people left. But Osho himself is her role in the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack. She was people know there are many probably to blame, at least partly. He left Sheela with total power sentenced to 20 years in Federal prison and paroled after 39 fellows’ beings that care.” said an AAP member who is for too long. He encouraged her to be provocative with the months. Sheela later moved to Switzerland and purchased two volunteered to help Covid- nursing homes. media. He enjoyed being provocative himself. 19 patients. During the first winter of the sannyasins arriving at the Ranch, Sheela told aka Swami Krishna Deva during a trip to India “We are so relieved that, some of the residents living in the little town of Antelope, 20 which they took in 1985, that she had injected her first husband today, many NGOs like We miles from the Ranch complained that the sannyasins who had Marc Harris Silverman with an injection that caused his death. the People Foundation, moved into the town were holding parties and complained that After prison, Sheela married Urs Birnstiel, a Swiss citizen, who Switch India, and activists the sannyasins' lovemaking was too loud for them. died of AIDS shortly after their marriage. have joined us in this work, Anti-Rajneeshpuram meetings were held in nearby towns, and In 1981, Rajneesh appointed her as his personal assistant. In as well as many media the atmosphere became tense. Sheela, and some of the other the same year, she convinced Rajneesh to leave India and persons. This not just coordinators used to tell people that every instruction she gave establish an ashram in the United States. In July 1981, Rajneesh extends the volunteer pool, came from him which was later found out to be untrue. She was Foundation International purchased the 64,000-acre (260 km2) but has also enabled us to set like the dictator, of the commune and if they tried to disobey or Big Muddy Ranch in Wasco County, Oregon, which became the up a team of Doctors, under argue with her, they would likely get into trouble or be punished. site for the development of the Rajneeshpuram commune. Dr Santosh Karmarkar, and She also had another group of women working underneath Overnight the commune became popular, Hollywood stars to young doctors with Switch her, who shared her living space, who had been given the top big businessmen all became part of it. By 1984, the ashram was India, who are calling and positions of power in the commune. These were known as the coming into increasing conflict with local residents and the counselling every patient and their kin. When the ‘moms’. However, Osho did not encourage or order Sheela to county commission. administration is crumbling With all criminal activities, jealousy and revenge Sheela carry out the many crimes that she and her gang carried out or under the weight of policies, planned to carry out to ‘protect’ the commune. started losing her grip on Osha. She was extradited to the US in we, the citizens, are stepping In my opinion, after watching Wild Wild Country February on charges of immigration fraud and attempted up. Together we can!”, said Documentary and listening to her interviews and conference murder. Sheela pleaded guilty to setting fire to a county office AAP team member. clips, it is quite clear that she proved to be a misfortune for Osho and wire-tapping at the commune. For these crimes, Sheela was in the United States. sentenced to three 20-year terms in federal prison, to be served After breaking his silence Osho expressed a very concurrently. Also, she was fined USD 470,000. compassionate outlook about the local Oregonians and did not The lady who enjoyed the peaks of power lost it all due to intend to take over the Antelope that she tried to do. I believe that jealousy, hate anger and the scheme, today once again in demand if Osho had gone in public silence, the local Oregonians would by filmmakers. [email protected] vaidehitaman vaidehisachin Volume No. 12 | Issue No. 217 Editor Dr. Vaidehi Printer and Publisher Printed at Newsmakers Publications Pvt. Ltd. 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