Just before shifting to New Delhi, the powerful, busy-as-a-bee man on the move Mr. Narendra Modi took time off from his hectic schedule to inaugurate what has been described as India’s first governmentaccredited, full-fledged, selffunded private yoga university on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s largest city.

   The then BharatiyaJanata Party controlled Modi administration not only made it a point to pass a Bill in the state legislative assembly to confer the coveted university status to the brand new Lakulish Yoga University (LYU) but also gifted it a 12,000-square-metre precious plot of land on the highway joining Ahmedabad with the state capital of Gandhinagar, some 30 kms away.

   Named after the last reincarnation of Lord Shiva, Lakulish, the LYU is located near the campuses of the prestigious Nirma University and the Indira Gandhi National Open University. A vice-chancellor (VC) who himself possesses a....