ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes the some aspects of simplicity, as perceived by urban middle-class seekers in the mid 2000s. This aspects include a rhetorical aspect with a growing preference for autobiographical and impressionist styles, a linguistic aspect with a growing preference for simple Hindi or English, and a performative aspect with a growing preference for intimacy and playfulness. Several of the movements in Delhi relied on English as their main medium of teaching, relegating Hindi and other vernaculars for off-stage clarifications and small-talk during the breaks. To make sense of this Anglicization the author outlines what many Hindi speakers conceptualize as a Sanskrit-English continuum. The chapter shows how dynamics of religious change could it be rooted. Religious principles and gender aside, Sanghmita Bharati and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar were remarkably different as far as their performative styles were concerned.
