Gopi Warrier


Gopi Warrier is a proponent of Indian Ayurvedic medicine, a playwright, and a poet.

Life and career

Ayurvedic Charitable Hospital

In 2000, Warrier founded The Ayurvedic Charitable Hospital, with 30 beds, in London. Warrier criticised the commercial aspect of Ayurveda clinics in Western countries, claiming that they were set up to trick people out of their money. In 2006, the hospital received a court order to wind up its activities due to insolvency, and the company was dissolved in 2012.

Ayurvedic university

In 2004, Warrier, David McAlpine and Lady Sarah Morritt founded Mayur, the "Ayurvedic University of Europe", in London; it offers a B.Sc. degree in Ayurveda.

Ayurvedic restaurant

Warrier opened an “Ayurvedic restaurant” named Mantra in 2004 in the City of London. Rather than diners selecting dishes from a menu, the waiter would assess them and decide what food would be appropriate for them. The restaurant abandoned this approach the following year.

Plays and poems

Warrier is the author of three books of poems, Varaha, and Lament of JC. and "Tenth Incarnation".
Warrier has staged several plays in London and Mumbai: God Sports, The Tenth Incarnation, Genesis of Karma -Three Faces of Evil, Siddhivinayak Saves Mumbai from Terror Attack. "Ego of the Yogis - Searching for Spirituality in a Contaminated World" and "A Polyester Lordship" in London at the Steiner Theatre.

Ayurvedic medicine

Poetry

  • Gopi Warrier and Amanda Brett. Lament of JC: Poems by Gopi Warrier. Delhi London Poetry Foundation, 1999.
  • Gopi Warrier. Vahara: The Secret of Evolution - New and Selected Poems. Mayur University, 2009.
  • Gopi Warrier. Karma is a Slow Virus. McAlpine & Hutton-Williams, London, 1988.
  • Gopi Warrier. In a Country near Zimbabwe: Indian socialites, Interviewing a Brahmin. McAlpine Hutton-Williams, London, 1980. ISBN
  • Gopi Warrier Tenth Incarnation - Destruction and Transformation of the Existing World Order. Delhi London Poetry Foundation 2013.