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Yogacharya to the world – Padmashri Dr B K S Iyengar

Others | Dec 10, 2001

Padmashri Dr B K S Iyengar, referred to simply as Guruji, has made a seminal difference to the practice and propagation of yoga. Rohini Nilekani speaks to the yogacharya.

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