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...host of similar schools have emerged in the wealthier neighborhoods of this prosperous city in recent years. Jayakumar Swamyshree runs Pranava Yogadham, where he offers courses of varying durations, but usually with up to four sessions in a day. Like many teachers and students, he is critical of Jois's brand of yoga, which many teachers in Mysore have adopted - largely to attract foreign students and their dollars. "Yoga's about liberation, emancipation, inner peace, harmony... That's the ultimate aim of yoga - kaivalya. It's not just about a perfectly sculpted body," he says. He also says Jois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Mecca of Celebrity Yoga | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...bloody coup of 1966, Wee went into politics in 1973 and served as high commissioner to Malaysia and ambassador to South Korea and Japan before being tapped to become the city-state's fourth President. Wee "took to diplomacy like a duck to water," said Deputy Prime Minister Shanmugam Jayakumar, and was eulogized by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as a "true Singaporean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

...Manjiv Jayakumar, a conference attendee from Sri Lanka, a country formerly torn by civil war and extensive poverty, said he has come to understand that “the revival of an economy can lead to peace process...

Author: By Alicia Warlick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Entrepreneurs Discuss Non-Profit Ventures at Conference | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...soldiers. But when soldiers arrived with a specially cooked New Year's meal, refugees refused it on orders from a rebel. That night part of the school was set on fire. "We are stuck between the army on one side and the [Tigers] on the other side," says K. Jayakumar, 29, a fisherman. "Please tell them both that we deserve some peace after all we have been through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race Against Time | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

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