Sai Baba's 85th Birthday
Sathya Sai Baba Swami celebrated his 85th birthday on 23rd November 2010. It is said that there were 1 million people staying at the ashram and around Puttaparthi. In the month leading up to the celebrations, RadioSai, the communications channel based at Prasanthi Nilyam, put out a daily video about Baba's life and message. The individual videos can be seen here Swami's good works are enough to earn him respect from all sections of society, from the top to the bottom. His birthday was attended by the president and the prime minister of India as well as many devout and celebrated followers. His schools are treated as models for Indian schools and are encouraged by the government He has managed to bring fresh drinking water to more than 8m people – more than the population of Sweden. He has completed a scheme planned more than100 years ago to bring reliable fresh water to Madras. His two free hospitals are models of their kind and almost certainly ...