Baba Ramdev has a new home and it's Madame Tussauds in London, a city the swadeshi icon believes is a "wonderful place with lovely people" and one he is "very comfortable in because of the love he gets every time" he is on English soil. mid-day spoke exclusively to the yoga guru on Friday evening at the Grand Royale hotel in Hyde Park on being immortalised in wax, breaking world records, his leadership junoon and being (what he calls) "a secular sanyasi"."

Ramdev is in the UK to conduct a series of yoga sessions in London, Coventry and Glasgow. But, before that he met a select audience of young students and achievers to discuss leadership - balancing mind, body and soul at an event organised by National Indian Student and Alumni Association (NISAA) where he was awarded an honorary fellowship by Virendra Sharma,a Member of Parliament of Indian origin in the UK.