{"id":22415,"date":"2016-10-18T10:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=22412&amp;preview_id=22412"},"modified":"2016-10-18T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:32:23","slug":"baba-ramdev-is-guest-at-express-adda-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=22415","title":{"rendered":"Baba Ramdev is guest at Express Adda today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will be the guest at Express Adda Tuesday. Ramdev, who straddles many worlds \u2014 from yoga to ayurveda, business to politics \u2014 is also the founder of Haridwar-based Patanjali Ayurved.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Born in Haryana, Ramdev, 50, started out by offering free yoga training to villagers in Jind before moving to Haridwar. He gained popularity when his yoga<\/p>\n<p>show started being beamed on television.<\/p>\n<p>A host of celebrities have attended his yoga camps. He also routinely holds yoga workshops abroad. In 2006, he was invited to deliver a lecture on poverty alleviation at a United Nations conference.<\/p>\n<p>Patanjali Ayurved, which registered a turnover of Rs 5,000 crore in the last financial year, was started by Ramdev a decade ago. It offers a range of organic products \u2014 from cosmetics to food. In 2010, he announced plans to form a political party but eventually decided not to contest elections. He backed the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.<\/p>\n<p>His autobiography, Being Baba Ramdev, comes out next year. \u201cA lot has been written about me by other people in the media. Now, with my autobiography, I will share with you the story of my life in my own words,\u201d he has said about the upcoming book.<\/p>\n<p>The Express Adda is a series of informal interactions organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/\">The Indian Express<\/a> Group and features people who have been at the centre of change. In the past, it has hosted, among others, actors, authors, economists, ministers, cricketers and filmmakers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will be the guest at Express Adda Tuesday. Ramdev, who straddles many worlds \u2014 from yoga to ayurveda, business to politics \u2014 is also the founder of Haridwar-based Patanjali Ayurved. &nbsp; Born in Haryana, Ramdev, 50, started out by offering free yoga training to villagers in Jind before moving to Haridwar. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}