Yog Sandesh is a monthly magazine published in India. [1]
Yog Sandesh is a monthly magazine published in India. [1]
The Yog Sandesh was first published in September 2003. [2] The magazine is published by the Divya Yog Mandir Trust. [2] It covers yoga, pranayama, ayurveda, culture, rituals and spirituality. [3] The magazine published in only two languages, including Hindi and English, . [4] It has a monthly readership of more than a million in India and abroad. This magazine is inspired by Baba Ramdev and the editor of this magazine is Acharya Balkrishna. [5]
Ramdev, known also by the prefix Baba, is an Indian yoga guru, businessman and brand ambassador for Patanjali Ayurved. He is primarily known for being a proponent of yoga and ayurveda in India. Ramdev has been organizing and conducting large yoga camps since 2002 and broadcasting his yoga classes on various TV channels. He co-founded Patanjali Ayurved and Patanjali Yogpeeth with his colleague Balkrishna in 2006. Ramdev has received criticism over his comments related to modern medicine, yoga, and ayurveda.
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Sanskar TV is an Indian spiritual Television channel, based in Noida, India. Its programs feature to broadcasting on the Indian philosophy, religion, spiritual solidarity, and culture and focuses more on devotion than spiritualism. The channel started broadcasting in June 2000 and in 2004 The Tribune reported it to have been gaining popularity over the then dominated entertainment and news channels on Indian television.
Shiv Brat Lal Verman, (1860-1939) popularly known by the honorifics "Data Dayal" (Merciful) and "Maharishi", was born in Bhadohi district of Uttar Pradesh state in India in February 1860. He was a post graduate and a famous writer. It is believed that he wrote as many as 3,000 books on various social, historical, religious and spiritual topics. Being a famous writer he was called as the modern Maharishi Ved Vyas and hence became famous with the name Maharishi ji.
Patanjali Yogpeeth is a yoga institute located in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. Founded in 2006 and named after the Rishi Patanjali, the purpose of the institute is to practice, research, and develop yoga and ayurveda. The institute is the flagship project of the yoga teacher and entrepreneur Ramdev.
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The Indian anti-corruption movement, popularly known as Anna Andolan, was a series of demonstrations and protests across India that began in 2011 and was intended to establish strong legislation and enforcement against perceived endemic political corruption. The movement was named as one of the "Top 10 News Stories of 2011" by Time magazine.
Ramdev is yoga guru in India. A manufacturing unit owned by his yoga trust was accused of violating labour law and medicine mislabelling. The controversy lasted from mid-2005 to March 2006, when the state government of Uttaranchal dropped charges against Ramdev.
Patanjali Ayurved is an Indian multinational conglomerate holding company, based in Haridwar. It was founded by Ramdev and Balkrishna in 2006. Its office is in Delhi, with manufacturing units and headquarters in the industrial area of Haridwar. The company manufactures cosmetics, ayurvedic medicine, personal care and food products. The CEO of the company, with a 94-percent share hold, is Balkrishna. Ramdev represents the company and makes strategic decisions.
Yogi Haider is a yoga teacher living in Pakistan. He is the founder of Yoga Pakistan and Way of Nature through which he teaches yoga and meditation. He studied yoga in Burma, Tibet, Nepal and India, including from S. N. Goenka. Haider is from Pakistan's Punjab province. He has been teaching yoga since 1994. His organisation teaches yoga to over 10,000 students in Islamabad, Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore.
University of Patanjali is a private university, having its Main Campus in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. It was established in 2006 after the Legislative Assembly of Uttarakhand passed The University of Patanjali Act, 2006. It was founded by Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna
Bal Krishna Sharma, known under the pen name Naveen, was an Indian freedom activist, journalist, politician and a poet of Hindi literature. He was a member of the 1st Lok Sabha, representing Kanpur constituency and served the Rajya Sabha as a member from 1957 till his death. He succeeded Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi as the editor of Pratap daily and also served as a member of the Official Languages Commission. His poetry anthologies include Kumkum, Rashmirekha, Apalak, Kwasi, Vinoba Stavan, Urmila and Hum Vishpaee Janam Ke, the last one published posthumously. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1960, for his contributions to literature. India Post issued a commemorative stamp on Sharma in 1989.
World Herbal Forest is an initiative of Government of Haryana.
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Swami Ramdev - Ek Sangharsh is an Indian biopic television series based on the life on Swami Ramdev. It is produced by Ajay Devgn FFilm Productions and Watergate Productions. It premiered on 12 February 2018 on Discovery Jeet. The show launched on Netflix with the title Swami Baba Ramdev: The Untold Story.
Anu Malhotra is a former Judge of the Delhi High Court. She has decided a number of key cases relating to freedom of expression, education, governance, and criminal law in India, including a widely reported ban on the publication of a book about businessman and yoga teacher Ramdev, a case concerning poll campaigns by sitting Members of Parliament, and several public interest petitions filed against municipal corporations regarding infrastructure and governance in Delhi.
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