The Week India – July 21, 2019

JULY 21, 2019 • THE WEEK 73

SEASON’S GREETINGS

The much-awaited trailer of the second season of Sacred

Games is out. Apparently, Pankaj Tripathi’s character,

Guruji, is going to have a much bigger role this season.

Kalki Koechlin and Ranvir Shorey join the star cast of the

show. “This season is bigger, more compelling, and totally

unexpected,” show-runner Vikramaditya Motwane said. “Be

prepared to discover a different side to each character as we

take the audience on a tremendous journey....” The second

season premieres on Netflix on August 15.

CASH FLOW

Masaba Gupta’s fashion label, House

of Masaba, has raised $1 million in a

round of investment led by Flipkart

co-founder Binny Bansal. “After

being in the business of fashion for

10 years, it was the right time to bring

on board institutional investors,” said

Gupta. “I believe that the brand has

immense scalability, both domesti-

cally and internationally.” The brand,

which specialises in resort-wear,

swimwear and bridal wear, has 11

exclusive outlets in India.

CONTRIBUTOR: PRIYANKA BHADANI

COMPILED BY ANJULY MATHAI

supposed to switch on the app and

do these exercises wherever you are

for three or four minutes. We are

starting with ten carefully designed

modules and will be adding ten more

every month. We are also translating

it into several local languages. I am

getting good response from govern-

ment organisations. The Bengaluru

Police have signed on to the app and

want it in Kannada. They think it is a

great thing.

Your mission has been to make yoga

more attractive to young people.

I think yoga is not considered a cool

thing. Running is. You have mara-

thon runners, but yoga does not have

the cool factor because it is still

dominated by Baba Ramdev across

the world. He may have done a lot

for yoga, but he is not the coolest

person in the world. What Bruce

Lee did to Kung Fu, right?

Can you tell us about Om the dog,

the character you created to make

yoga attractive to kids?

Penguin will be publishing the

book. They loved the character.

Om is this cool little dog who does

yoga, because all the yoga poses

are derived from nature. There is a

frog called Praana and an elephant

called Moksha and they all do yoga

together in an ashram.

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