Justine has a feature article in India Today on the rise of modern “gurus” of Indian philosophy:

“It is a staggering irony that we are now in the age of gigabyte gurus. The way of the Gurukul, the long pupillage of a child with a guru to establish if the child was even a worthy vessel of Vedic learning, has now been usurped by the Coca Cola factor. Years of preparing and honing a mind to the subtleties of the scriptures have been replaced by our impatience to get it all in one easy download, our need for instant gratification, and for not wanting to put in the earnest and ascetic legwork of decades of study and practice.”

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/Fast+food+for+the+soul/1/73513.html