ERODE: A 45-year-old woman, Daisyrani of Sathy demonstrated complex yogasanas while floating for nearly two hours in the swimming pool of Club Melaange here on Friday, as part of Women’s Rights Day celebration organised by Rotary Club of Erode Cosmos in connection with rationalist leader E V R Periyar’s birth anniversary.
Daisyrani performed Hatha yoga, Kara yoga, Aranga yoga, Trikona yoga etc. “This type of floating is not swimming in any way. It is an asana,” she told Express.
Daisyrani served as English teacher for six years in many schools in Chennai, Coimbatore and here before marrying city-based ortho surgeon Dr Muthukumar. She is now conducting free spoken English classes at his grandfather’s school in Sathy.
“I learnt swimming, yoga and painting as hobby while I was at school and won many prizes. I used to practice swimming during my childhood at Gobi. Even now I can float for more than six hours in water and do all types of swimming,” she said.
Daisyrani is also a good painter, a fact she proved by beautifully painting Periyar’s portrait within an hour. She subsequently handed it over to the organiser of the function. “While I lived in the UK for nearly six years in the 1980s, I was a fine arts student at the Jon Moores University in Liverpool. Later, I conducted six painting exhibitions in various towns of the UK,” she recounted.
“On returning to Tamil Nadu, I sketched over 60 paintings of great national leaders and gifted it to my friends. Actor Sivakumar who besides being my close relative is also a painter appreciated my paintings as well as the 40 odd poems in English and Tamil that I penned about mostly philosophical thoughts,” Daisyrani noted.
“I plan to bring out a book, comprising my paintings and poems. If there is a chance, I will try to set a Guinness record in floating,” she said.
“Though we see parents encouraging their daughters to pursue higher studies, after marriage the women are still not allowed to go outside to work in most families. Even the husbands who allow their wives to hold jobs for monetary reasons tend to not respect their feelings. Due to this reason, so many matrimonial disputes are pending in courts,” Daisyrani said.