Another India (Bharat) Soka Gakkai report

There are plenty of young people who have left their homes to live in cities and struggle in unfamiliar, trying circumstances. These are the kind of youth that BSG leaders prey on to "shakubuku" as members. They say India has 111,111 members now, but as a former leader I can attest that these numbers are a blatant lie- they don't update their MDS(Member Database System), the definition of a "member" keeps changing. Today, even a casual attendee is a member. People who haven't attended a meeting for 5 years are also "members"- and we have to pray that they attend meetings! We are just expected to accept such stupid ways of recruiting,expected to keep following up and calling members who are pretty happy without the practice. As many of you have described, the Ikeda worship as an "eternal mentor" is extremely nauseating and suffocating. Even at the height of my "practice" it was difficult for me to stomach. If he is such a mentor, why doesn't he come forward and show his face?They keep playing clips from 1992. I anyway find his so called "guidance" repetitive and self-serving. Incidentally, the members in India are concentrated in the Indian capital-Delhi, and are well to do and educated- what you would call the elite. It is amazing to see that a good education is no guarantee to protect one from such cult mechanics. As you can imagine, Eastern philosophy is embedded deep in Indian ethos and that is the reason why a lot of Indians don't find BSG odd. Most elite Indians- the kind of demographic that BSG preys on- distrust conventional religion and see Ikeda's Buddhism as a "new age religion" that preaches and talks big but doesn't do anything except organise seminars and talks in air conditioned chambers, when outside the city is boiling. It gives a feeling of "achieving good karma" without actually doing shit. In a country like India, there is so much to do for the society but I haven't ever seen the BSG youth or any of the older members take an interest in what is happening in the country except paying lip service, chanting in community centers and false cheerfulness about the bright future of India because of the existence of BSG. There are relay(10 hr+) chanting sessions organised for success of stupid meetings but no chanting sessions organised when Chennai is grappling with floods, people have lost homes and children are dying!