Kavita Bhanot: Vedanta as a sponsor is simply another facet of the colonialism that is at the heart of the festival, the neoliberal form that imperialism continues to take, as a British company (wearing an eastern garb, another collaboration between eastern upper caste elites and western elites) exploits in the name of profit, the people of “third world” countries, through deception, stripping of resources, pollution and displacement. More here.