Before it tragically found itself shot in the foot, it went on to argue that all this “unnecessary overreaction from every quarter” would derail 21 years of progress and momentum all for a decision that was after all aborted. And any way it was only “a business decision and not every decision is right today”. How true.

The website’s disappearance suggests that the fan’s devotion to Raju was unconditional, unless of course appeared on the scene a written confession of guilt from the ‘godfather’ himself. Just Don Michael Corleone too discovered, dying alone and abandoned, that adoration and devotion and the people who offer it could be fickle when they found themselves duped and teetering on the edge of unemployment.

For a while, rejection by Raju’s fans of all proof to the contrary; unwavering faith in his innate goodness/godliness; and the belief that corporate fraud is an infinitely forgivable offence when the man in question is a supposed paragon of virtue, rescuer of the underprivileged and builder of empires, were most worrying. Now the magnanimous embrace of an inconvenient truth by Raju fundamentalists really should at the very least restore our faith in the infinite wisdom and rationale of cults.