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Yoga guru conferred honorary doctorate

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`Healing formula' sure to get Indian a Nobel, says Baba Ramdev

BHUBANESWAR: Clad in green robe that covered his saffron dhoti, Baba Ramdev was altogether in a different avatar.

`Call me doctor', yelled the yoga guru as camerapersons came closer for a shot soon after he was conferred an honorary doctorate degree by a private university here on Saturday.

With Baba Ramdev making waves in the country for his yoga lessons, which were linked to healing formula for different diseases, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology presented him an honorary doctorate degree at a special convocation.

"I have always been at loggerheads with doctors. But the degree I am receiving carried the same name. I hope I am now in their league," Baba Ramdev, who escaped a fatal road accident near Muradnagar in Uttar Pradesh in the morning, mused.

Power of yoga

"Three universities showed their intentions to bestow doctorate degree on me. This university has initiated the trend of giving doctorate to Babas," he said.

Coming to his pet subject, Ramdev said:

"The world will have to recognise that breath control is panacea to every disease. It can heal cancer, thyroid and heart problem. I am sure an Indian will get Nobel Prize in medicine for practising the healing formula."

He said time had come for interlinking of science and spiritualism.

Stating that he had never opted for modern education, the yoga guru said: "I have studied in traditional Indian education system because education being offered now was thrust by Lord Macaulay."

He said, through yoga, India could catapult into a major cultural, economic, social and political power in the world and play the role model for other countries.

Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, T. Ramasami and Nobel Laureate Richard R. Ernst were also present.

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