Modern postural yoga, the form practised in gyms and studios worldwide, was largely shaped by one teacher in 1930s Mysore. Krishnamacharya, a Brahmin from Karnataka, was given a mandate by the Maharaja of Mysore to make yoga popular, and he had to compete with the fashionable bodybuilding culture of the time. He turned yoga into flowing sequences of postures linked by breath, with a showier, more energetic style. His students then spread it widely: Iyengar developed a precise, slow-held approach, while Pattabhi Jois created ashtanga, a counted-breath sequence for groups. Krishnamacharya saw the changes as continuity, attributing them to ancient texts and his guru rather than to his own innovation.

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Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.