‘Yoga, celibacy key to long life’

Practice makes perfect: Swami Sivananda being watched by one of his followers as he practises yoga in Kolkata. — AFP

Kolkata: Looking remarkably unlined for his claimed 120 years, an Indian monk who says he is the oldest man to have ever lived puts his longevity down to no sex or spices, and daily yoga.

Hindu monk Swami Sivananda was born on Aug 8, 1896, according to his passport.