Michelle Goldberg is the author of Kingdom Coming, a New York Times bestseller that was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and The Means of Reproduction. Michelle is a senior contributing writer at the Nation. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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When the woman who would become Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced everywhere, from Brooklyn to Berlin to Ulaanbaatar. Born into the minor ar... SEE MORE