Magazine ArticlesMagazine articles with their longer lead times and need for more indepth information lagged behind newspaper articles in the early push to publicise Prem Rawat as the "greatest incarnation of God that ever trod the face of this planet".
Well that's pretty well it. After this date Prem Rawat was never considered worth bothering with by any mainstream magazine except in "The Good Weekend" which is distributed as part of Australia's most respected and prestigious newspapers including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Over the past 10 years as part of the "respectability project" Prem Rawat has been "interviewed" in some vanity publications and obscure magazines such as the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday and the Mauritius Times. In none of these articles is he ever asked any real questions about his claims to be able to reveal "inner peace", the methods involved or his public evolution from the Lord of the Universe to a self-funded investor of private means. |
In late November an article appeared in Time magazine. It is a combination of biography that appears to be lifted directly from the pages of the newly published "Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji?" and an upbeat success story about the Mission's chartered jumbo jets of Western devotees and the smuggling of watches, jewellery and money into India. Naturally his gluttonous delight in Baskins-Robbins ice-cream was mentioned and his unreliability and poor work-ethic were high-lighted. 
The last few articles were "I come to bury Maharaji not praise him" career obituaries though one was in Newsweek.