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Supreme Court cracks down on tiger safaris The Supreme Court has banned safaris in critical areas of the Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand. They will be only allowed in buffer or peripheral zones adjoining the reserve. The order comes after the Court discovered that the government had turned a blind eye to the cutting of over 6,000 trees to build a zoo (?!!) inside the park. The justices were outraged: On the “huge devastation” caused by the illegal felling, the court said it was “amazed at the audacity” of former Uttarakhand Forest Minister and Congress leader Harak Singh Rawat and ex-Divisional Forest Officer Kishan Chand for giving the forest and wildlife conservation laws a complete go-by and throwing the public trust doctrine “into the dustbin.” The Court also signalled that it may ban all safaris—even in the bordering zones. For now, it has allowed safaris in rescue and rehabilitation centres—for injured or orphaned tigers—in these areas. But bringing in injured tigers from zoos to include them in the safari is no longer permitted. Read more of our Headlines That Matter here: https://splainerlite.substack.com/p/farewell-nikki-haley You can subscribe for a free one-month subscription of splainer worth Rs 299 with this link: https://splainer.in/referral/PAXNPEU

The real lesson of self-help guru Jay Shetty Jay Shetty—the celebrity guru of the moment—has been exposed as a fraud by The Guardian. The real lesson, however, lies in the dazzling success of Shetty—which teaches us what it takes to make a multimillionaire guru. Short answer: something resembling a pyramid scheme. First, meet Jay Shetty The Jay Shetty backstory #1: The official version of Shetty’s life is that he grew up in an ordinary Indian family in the UK—trying to get his MBA and make money like any good Indian-origin boy. Then at the age of 19 (or 21), he attended a lecture by an ISKCON monk named Gauranga Das—that changed his life. After three years spent living as an ascetic in Das' ashram in India, Shetty realised his true purpose was to share the spiritual wisdom he had found. The Jay Shetty backstory #2: According to The Guardian investigation, Shetty grew up in an ISKCON family. In fact, he was a true Hare Krishna believer—knew Gauranga Das long before he went to business school. There may indeed have been an epiphany—but on an ISKCON trip to France not a lecture hall. And he spent those three years not roughing it in India—but at Bhaktivedanta Manor, a sprawling Tudor estate in his hometown, Watford. Story of his success: Soon after leveraging his ISKCON network to promote his YouTube videos, Shetty caught the eye of socialite/ media entrepreneur Arianna Huffington (also a queen of self-help). He moved to New York, wrote his first book—‘Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day’—and the rest is history. Where he is now: Shetty’s people have issued strenuous denials—but the story has gone viral. This is more than just a story of a ‘spiritual guru’ exposed to be a charlatan. Shetty’s fall exposes the business of self-help—which now operates as a very profitable pyramid scheme. Read our Big Story—our one big explainer of the day—to find out more: https://splainer.in/sections/2024/The-Self-help-Hustle/big-story

The real lesson of self-help guru Jay Shetty Jay Shetty—the celebrity guru of the moment—has been exposed as a fraud by The Guardian. The real lesson, however, lies in the dazzling success of Shetty—which teaches us what it takes to make a multimillionaire guru. Short answer: something resembling a pyramid scheme. First, meet Jay Shetty The Jay Shetty backstory #1: The official version of Shetty’s life is that he grew up in an ordinary Indian family in the UK—trying to get his MBA and make money like any good Indian-origin boy. Then at the age of 19 (or 21), he attended a lecture by an ISKCON monk named Gauranga Das—that changed his life. After three years spent living as an ascetic in Das' ashram in India, Shetty realised his true purpose was to share the spiritual wisdom he had found. The Jay Shetty backstory #2: According to The Guardian investigation, Shetty grew up in an ISKCON family. In fact, he was a true Hare Krishna believer—knew Gauranga Das long before he went to business school. There may indeed have been an epiphany—but on an ISKCON trip to France not a lecture hall. And he spent those three years not roughing it in India—but at Bhaktivedanta Manor, a sprawling Tudor estate in his hometown, Watford. Story of his success: Soon after leveraging his ISKCON network to promote his YouTube videos, Shetty caught the eye of socialite/ media entrepreneur Arianna Huffington (also a queen of self-help). He moved to New York, wrote his first book—‘Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day’—and the rest is history. Where he is now: Shetty’s people have issued strenuous denials—but the story has gone viral. This is more than just a story of a ‘spiritual guru’ exposed to be a charlatan. Shetty’s fall exposes the business of self-help—which now operates as a very profitable pyramid scheme. Read our Big Story—our one big explainer of the day—to find out more: https://splainer.in/sections/2024/The-Self-help-Hustle/big-story