This past spring, Milind Soman and wife Ankita Konwar matched step-for-step running the breadth of Europe. They are back now in Lower Parel, Mumbai, dialling in for a video call along with Usha Soman, Milind’s 84-year-old mother, a retired Biochemistry lecturer, to discuss Keep Moving (published by Juggernaut). The book written with well-known author Roopa Pai ( The Gita for Children and Milind Soman’s memoir Made in India are by her) is a part-biography, part-fitness journey of the trio that arguably makes up India’s first family of fitness.
“The book explores three different perspectives on how to be holistically healthy through people in three different age groups,” says Milind, 58, who has stayed in the spotlight for decades, finding fame as a supermodel, actor, TV presenter and fitness evangelist. Ankita, a 32-year-old yoga practitioner, introduces readers to her idea of fitness garnered from a childhood spent in the great, wide spaces of North-East India, while Usha, grew up at a time when exercise was not a concept and found fitness only post-retirement. “In my case it was the pursuit of sport from a young age,” says Milind.
“We have arrived at our own idea of fitness at a time when it is easier to build it with the help of trainers and coaches.” The book Keep Moving has been published by Juggernaut| Photo Credit:Special arrangement The book begins with the existential questions ‘How do you count your age? What is good health anyway? What does fitne.
