The Indo-Asian News Service profiles Kapil Gautam, a 27-year-old Indian yoga instructor who moved to Shenyang in 2006:
Having mastered Japanese and Spanish in Delhi University, Gautam came to China two years ago to study a new language. He ended up in Shenyang town, about 700 km northeast of Beijing where temperatures dip in winter to a bone chilling -37 degrees.
Even as he learnt Putong Hua, the dominant Chinese language, Gautam started teaching yoga to a people hungry to know the ancient Indian science. In the process he became a celebrity of sorts as the town’s magazines and television channels vied with one another to interview him.
Gautam is only one of an estimated 400 yoga teachers from India who have made China their home and are making a mark…[Full text]
