Interesting….
Maybe would should start Yoga Party as a third Party in the US…
India’s bewilderingly complex political arena has a new player — the country’s most popular yoga guru, Baba Ramdev.
An extremely successful yoga evangelist and entrepreneur, the saffron-robed Ramdev has promised to cleanse the country’s rotting body politic of corruption and is currently on a nationwide campaign to mobilize support among the masses.
“Yoga has the immense potential to cement the bond of amity between the people across the country and make them mentally strong and physically fit for transforming the nation into a spiritual and economic superpower in the world,” he said at a recent public rally at Khammam in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Fifty-seven year old Ramdev has taken traditional yoga and pranayama (breathing techniques) to new heights. He has reintroduced yoga to the Indian middle class through his hugely popular television programs — believed to draw an average of 40 million viewers daily — and camps where he teaches unhealthy, overweight middle-class Indians breathing exercises and yoga postures to rid themselves of diseases ranging from depression to diabetes. He has also controversially claimed he can cure cancer and HIV/AIDS.
via Charismatic Yoga Evangelist Takes Indian Politics By Storm | | AlterNet.
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