Ringo Starr : Ringo Starr did not like being in India
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Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has revealed that he did not like being in India much during 1968.
Starr, 68, and the other Beatles members had at the time been followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
“There were lepers without fingers and noses,” the New York Post quoted the drummer as saying at a press conference promoting Radio City concert to benefit meditation training for kids.
Starr said he left the ashram after 10 days because “the food was too spicy”.
Paul McCartney, who was flanked by fellow meditators Donovan, flutist Paul Horn and Mike Love of the Beach Boys, looked quizzical after Starr finished.
“I haven’t much to say after that . . . leprosy?” McCartney said. (ANI)
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UpsetIndian said:
I feel very hurt to hear Starr’s remarks on India. I think he missed the wood for the trees.
Maybe he felt guilty that he is not generous enough to help out Indians with his time and money.
I am an Indian and I teach in CA high schools. What I see in kids here is leprosy in the mind. I teach them Yoga and Meditation instead of running away from them.
Mr.Starr did you ever think to ask the Ashram staff to make you less spicy food?
May 19th, 2009 at 6:42 am
