This Week in Explainers: Why 150 policemen turned up at Sadhguru’s Isha Foundation

India’s cool spiritual guru, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, made the headlines this week. His ashram, the Isha Foundation, came under the police scanner, with cops landing up at his Coimbatore institute. Read up on this and more in our weekly roundup of the big stories from the country

This Week in Explainers: Why 150 policemen turned up at Sadhguru’s Isha Foundation
Head of Isha Foundation, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. The institution came under fire this week on claims that it was pressuring people to convert into monks and staying at the ashram. File image/PTI

The very well-known and reputed Isha Foundation, founded by Sadhguru, saw itself in the eye of the storm when 150 police personnel led by an additional superintendent of police rank officer from Coimbatore Rural Police raided the institute’s premises.

There was also the news of how the Supreme Court of India gave Atul Kumar, an 18-year-old student from Uttar Pradesh, a second chance at his college dream.

The Union Health Ministry’s new draft guidelines on passive euthanasia also was in the news after the Indian Medical Association asked for a review on the matter.

And the news in India would be incomplete if there wasn’t a political controversy. This week, it’s all thanks to Telangana Minister Konda Surekha who stirred the pot when she linked KT Rama Rao, or KTR, with the divorce of actors Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu.