Dr. Chowdhury’s videos are all in Hindi, and his influence extends to the upper echelons of India’s political class. On March 5, he met Dr. Harsh Vardhan, the health minister responsible for India’s response to the pandemic, at the minister’s office inside the Indian parliament in Delhi. Chowdhury offered “his services to help cure Covid-19.” Explaining that all viral infections are the same and can be cured by boosting immunity, he offered simple advice: Patients should undertake a three-day diet of coconut water, citrus juice, and vegetables
Chowdhury’s clientele is varied; it includes labourers and truck drivers, business people and bureaucrats. One of them, a member of parliament from the state of Maharashtra, helped set up the meeting with Vardhan. (The client, K.B. Tumane, follows Chowdhury’s three-step diet for diabetes.) People have different reasons for putting their trust in Chowdhury. Some simply appreciate that he isn’t trying to scare them, while others, like Harjeet Singh Virdi from Ghaziabad, find him cathartic: “After listening to your talk I’m relieved of the fear of corona,” he wrote on Chowdhury’s Facebook page.
Others still, like Meena Gupta, believe in his medical approach. Gupta says she was initially apprehensive about his treatments, but watching Chowdhury’s videos convinced her. In 2016, after the successful completion of Chowdhury’s residency program, Gupta set up her own clinic in Kolkata and has treated more than 6,000 patients for lifestyle illnesses such as diabetes. Asked about Chowdhury’s March 24 Covid-19 video, in which he rejects the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control, she said, “I have complete faith in him.”
Just hours after Chowdhury’s meeting with Vardhan, photos of the minister with his book HIV-AIDS: Greatest Lie of the 21st Century were splashed across social media. “Great to see you with our Health Minister. Lastly the government recognises you,” wrote Ram Krushna Mandal, one of Chowdhury’s Facebook followers. A month later, on World Health Day, Chowdhury published Corona: The Scandal of the Millennium, an e-book of home remedies for Covid-19, and claimed that the pandemic was a scheme spearheaded by WHO on behalf of China. Since its release on April 7, it has been downloaded more than 70,000 times.
Chowdhury has built bonds with his viewers by comforting them. His videos reduce anxiety and give people the impression that they have some control over their lives. “My intention is, if a patient comes to me once, they should never return again. It’s a permanent treatment,” Chowdhury says. Dr. Chowdhury has no shortage of new clients, and his fan base is growing. In these dark times, he is offering a sense of security and people are in need of.
Note to Nilesh Christopher the author of the original article : Sir as much as you have your biases to see Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury in wrong perspective, others have equal rights to put him in the right.