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About: Daniel Simpson

Website: http://www.roughguidedarkside.com
Profile: Before he moved to London and took up yoga, Daniel worked as a foreign correspondent. He resigned from the New York Times to run a music festival, which he hoped would be a Serbian version of Woodstock. Instead, it got him embroiled with Balkan gangsters. This inspired him to flee the region and write a book, to be published in August 2012. Nowadays he mainly writes about yoga, and lives somewhere between the UK and northern India. You can read his previous articles here, or he's on Twitter as @danielcsimpson.
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Why I quit the New York Times to join Balkan gangsters.

by Daniel Simpson on Jul 7, 2012

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The Obama Delusion.

by Daniel Simpson on Jan 23, 2012

Ten years ago, George W. Bush introduced the world to his “axis of evil”. Delivering the annual State of the Union speech, he vowed to ratchet up spending on “homeland security”, by pre-emptively attacking phantom enemies. Chief among these was Iraq, which dared “to flaunt its hostility toward America” (in the face of threatened “shock [...]

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Yoga Wrecked My Hash Habit.

by Daniel Simpson on Jan 13, 2012

My first encounter with yoga was in India, but we weren’t performing postures on a mat. I was sitting round a fire smoking dope with dreadlocked sadhus.

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The Housewife Who Shone Light On U.S. Yoga.

by Daniel Simpson on Jan 6, 2012

Last year, I met one of B.K.S. Iyengar’s earliest pupils. She attended his first class in London, and was certified as a teacher on the spot. Now in her 90s, like Iyengar, she maintains a daily practice, and gives classes. It might seem odd that Iyengar accredited a housewife, but when Diana Clifton started, hardly [...]

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How B.K.S. Iyengar Kicked My Asana.

by Daniel Simpson on Dec 29, 2011

By Daniel Simpson This summer I had the privilege to be taught by B.K.S. Iyengar. At almost 93, his fire still burned. Visiting China as an ambassador for yoga, he stood for hours at a stretch drilling 1,300 students. While the emphasis was technically on postures, they were the vehicle for an integrated masterclass, combining practical [...]

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Holy Bankers, Batman! Or Indian Fakers?

by Daniel Simpson on Dec 22, 2011

By Daniel Simpson India isn’t just another country. Sometimes it can feel like a parallel universe. Here’s a scene from the State Bank of India in Rishikesh. Check the reading matter of choice on the foreign exchange desk. Among traders at a Western banking behemoth, that might be a glossy lifestyle mag, or even cruder [...]

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