Early Years
B.K.S. Iyengar was born into a poor Iyengar family. He was the 11th of 13 children of father Sri Krishnamachar, a school teacher, and mother Sheshamma. Iyengar's home village of Bellur, in Karnataka, was in the grips of the influenza pandemic at the time of his birth, leaving him sickly and weak. Throughout his childhood, he struggled with malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and general malnutrition. Iyengar's father died when he was 9 years old.
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