American Hindu monk opens ashram of surfing swamis in India!!!

Surfing, a sport with devout followers from South Wales to New South Wales, has never caught on in India — despite the country having more than 4,500 miles of coast and giant waves during the monsoon.

That could now change as the world’s first surfing swami sets his sights on popularising the pursuit across the subcontinent — a land that the holy man says has waves as attractive as those in the surfing mecca of Hawaii.

Swami Bhakti Gaurava Narasingha, 64, an American Hindu monk who has been living in India for four decades, has opened the country’s first surfing ashram — religious community — near Mangalore on the southwest coast. More...

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