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Monday, February 3, 2014

Non-english critics

This article gathers the critics which are not written in English. You can use google translate to try to understand their content.

Video in German of the journalist and cult expert Hugo Stamm. He gives his opinion about the intense feelings felt by the people during darshan.


Article in German written by Hugo Stamm for the online version of the Swiss magazine Tages Anzeiger. The journalist asks why 60% of the donations are not used. Swami Ramakrishnananda Puri gives a surprising answer.

Schwere Vorwürfe gegen Umarmerin Amma
Article in German written by Hugo Stamm for the online version of the Swiss magazine Tages Anzeiger. It talks about Gail's Tredwell's book Holy Hell.

Amma, la santona che dispensa abbracci e gadgets umanitari
The Italian blogger Lode allo Spirito Santo thinks that following Amma is not compatible with Christian faith because she is a self-proclaimed god. Though pretending that all religions are equal, she prompts to become slightly hinduist.

Die Amma-Kontroverse
Following legal threats, the online Swiss magazine Spuren had to unpublish its interview of Gail Tredwell. This article in German explains the controversy.

Visite à la Mère divine
A French federation of anti-cult organizations warns against Amma's merchandising and mentions Gail Tredwell's book.

അമൃതാനന്ദമയിക്കെതിരെ മുന് ശിഷ്യയുടെ പുസ്തകം
A Malayalam article talking about Gail Tredwell's book in the online newspaper Madhyamam. The same article was published in the paper version.

Web special!
The malayalam online TV Indiavision Live has elaborated a special page to gather controversies about Amma.

Gail "Gayatri" Tredwell Exposes Amma Violence
Reporter, the first journalist driven news TV channel in Malayalam, talks about Gail Tredwell's book. This is an extract posted on ReporterLiveChannel. Reporter has also made a page on their website.

Mouvements néo-hindous: controverses autour du livre d’une ex-disciple de Mata Amritanandamayi
Another Swiss media which gathers informations about religions has written an analysis of Amritanandamayi's story and the Holy Hell controversy.

HC prohibits selling of the book published Gail Tredwell's interview
The Kerala High Court has banned DC books from publishing or selling a transcript of Gail’s interview for 3 months, based on plaintiff’s claims that the book promoted communal disharmony and distressed Amma’s devotees.

MAMAN®
A French website totally dedicated to Amritanandamayi

EducaSectas
A Spanish website which aims at exposing spiritual fraudsters has issued an article about Holy Hell and the media fuss that it triggered.

Kritik an Amma wühlt die Esoterikszene auf
One more article from Switzerland teeling about the turmoil brought in the spiritual scene by Amritanandamayi's scandal. It also mentions the threats against Spuren Magazine.

Qué hay detrás de AMMA?
 The Mexican writer, journalist and photograph Mauricio-José Schwarz has talked to Sanal Edamaruku two years ago. The famous Indian rationalist explained him everything about Amma. Cognitive impairment? Promoted by a former member of Sai Baba? We would like to know more.

Amritanandamayi, the hugging mother, ovvero “la madre abbracciona” – La mia esperienza verace con una bizzarra santona del Kerala – Velina D’Arpina iconoclastina -
Paolo D’Arpini was wondering how 30 millions fools in the world could believe in fairy tales. So he decided to try the darshan with his one year old son. The child felt embarrassed...