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How Javed dissed the Swami
Updated On: 06 November, 2012 07:52 AM IST | | Malavika Sangghvi
Every lit fest needs a good slugfest, and so if Dharker's LitLive! had its Karnad-Naipaul scrap then surely the incendiary afternoon session between a scowling Javed Akhtar and an 'attempting to seem above it all but obviously rattled' Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is Thinkfest's great arm wrestle.

>> Every lit fest needs a good slugfest, and so if Dharker’s LitLive! had its Karnad-Naipaul scrap then surely the incendiary afternoon session between a scowling Javed Akhtar and an ‘attempting to seem above it all but obviously rattled’ Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is Thinkfest’s great arm wrestle. From the start, the exquisitely robed Guru as exotic as a precious artifact from a handicraft museum is no match for the street-fighting Javed. The topic of the day is ‘Five Star Fixes: Ancient Technologies for the Modern Mind’ but what it comes down to is that primeval battle between faith and rationality.
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