Under Nita Ambani’s leadership, the entire Ambani family was preparing for the event for a week. Practices and rehearsals were on for everything — from Vande Mataram to ‘Ved paath’. So immersed in the practices was the Ambani family that sometimes its members were seen rehearsing for them until five in the morning. Nita Ambani herself was reading aloud a Shloka paath. An entire team of pandits was busy trying to get her sanskrit pronunciation right. Sensing Modi’s liking for yoga, the H N Hospital by Reliance Foundation has a separate yoga centre to promote the same. Both Nita and Mukesh are showing interest in yoga and spirituality; sensing this, M D Anderson cancer center of Texas University has made Nita a visiting fellow for yoga classes there.