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In 1984, Choudhury married Rajashree Choudhury, who assisted him in founding the United States Yoga Federation and the International Yoga Sports Federation (IYSF). [32] [33] She won the first National Yoga Championship held by the Yoga Federation of India in 1979, followed by four more consecutive years as National Yoga Champion. [34]
Rajshree is the daughter of acclaimed Indian filmmaker V. Shantaram and actress Jayshree, his second wife. Her brother Kiran Shantaram was a former Sheriff of Mumbai. While shooting with Raj Kapoor in America for the film Around the World, she met American student Greg Chapman. The two married three years later, on 28 November 1967 in an Indian ...
His ex-wife Rajashree Choudhury, also a student of the Ghosh lineage and an all-India asana champion, created USA Yoga, described in 2022 as the leading competitive yoga organisation. [7] The documentary film Posture by Nathan Bender and Daniel Nelson portrays competitors and detractors of the USA Yoga Federation National Championship. [8]
Rajashree Choudhury (born 1965), Indian-born founder of USA Yoga and International Yoga Sports Federation Rajshree Pathy , eminent entrepreneur from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India Rajshree Thakur (born 1981), Indian actress best known for her role as Saloni in the Hindi television drama Saat Phere
Bishnu Charan Ghosh was born in a well to do Bengali family in Lahore, the youngest of eight children of Bhagabati Charan Ghosh (1853–1942) and brother of Mukunda Lal Ghosh, better known by his spiritual name, Paramahansa Yogananda. [1] [2] His parents' guru was Lahiri Mahasaya, who taught Kriya Yoga. [2]
Children: 3, including ... Waheeda Rehman, Mumtaz, Mala Sinha and Rajshree. Biswajit appeared in Rekha's debut film Anjana ... both composed by Salil Choudhury. Later ...
Several of the children of former prime ministers have entered politics. Two have become prime ministers themselves, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. P. V. Narasimha Rao had 8 children, the most of any prime minister. Two prime ministers – Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Narendra Modi – have had no biological children. However, Vajpayee had an ...
Choudhury was married to Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury (died 1974) when she was 16 as his second wife. [10] [4] He had three sons from his first marriage and seven from his second. [4] His son, Humayun Rashid Choudhury (died 10 July 2001), [11] was a diplomat and later the speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad (parliament of Bangladesh).