Compared to the Iluminati....................the guys an amateur :)

Mr Winky, London,

Those who criticise old daddy is certainly out of jealousy, and it seems ignorance too, because nowhere in the article it is said he had many wives at the same time. Or it is not an American invention divorcing and getting married again as many times as one buys a new car, or by the way having many wives, at the same time until yesterday in some central state? I do not envy him, but my ancestor who colonised Brazil by marrying 30 or so daughters of native indian chieftains,at the same time and place, and produced not dozens but hundreds of offsprings. He lived until he was 90, and not long before that would be able to walk 70km on a day.
It seems that it is not the meat that helps these men but the sexual activity and the hormones keeping everything working right.
There are really much worst things in the world, like killing to guarantee the wealth of a few, than bringing to this wolrd some more babies.

R Bernardo, Bath, UK

"There is a dense forest around the village"

Someone ought to check this forests trees and surroundings for traces of chemicals used in vigra on leaves, fruits and other foods.

Stanzler, NY, USA

yikes! im amazed he can still perform at that age! as far as the seven kids with his former daughter inlaw thats just messed up! he needs a vasectomy im sure the govt is paying for those kids as he is to old to work!

heather, marysville, united states

To RM, Sydney , Australia. Please, we're in the 21st Century. Have some respect for the practices of other cultures and races, be it polygamy, marrying your dead son's wife etc, what's taboo in YOUR society may not be theirs. We are in the 21st Century now whatever YOUR calendar says. This is the age of cultural tolerance, try to be more enlightened. Anyway what's it to you what other people do with their own personal lives. Next you are going to say that homosexuality is revolting, embarrassing and ridiculous? If you had any guts you would have picked a fight with someone your own size who might actually put you in your place, not some 90 year old man in a faraway place who doesn't speak English. You have just shown how culturally backward and primitive you are. Not to mention cowardly!

WY, Cardiff, Wales

People from the so-called "Westernised" democracies (e.g., USA, UK, Australia, Canada) who have expressed their spiteful (perhaps even jealous!) comments on this forum should look at the accomplishments and circumstances of this procreative man, Mr. Ram Jogi, as an example of what living in a true democracy means - i.e., living your life on your terms, within the bounds of both man-made and natural law, without causing harm to your fellow man, while taking care of your family, without the interference of the state / Government. It could only happen in India, the truest of democracies !! Jai Hind !!

John E. F. O'Reigner, Wirral, England

its amazing to read the ignorance of those commenting. while we may question the logic of the situation, family planning is not something that is stressed in any cultures, and looked down upon when practiced in other societies. he has had 4 wives in 65 years... elizabeth taylor, sylvester stalone, and britney spears have burned through how many spouses already?
is it me, or is the amazing part of this story that a 90 year old guy is able to hunt and catch food? if he father's a child, he father's a child.

sam, Columbus, OH

People should think before accusing this man of wrong doing.
Who says that, at his age, his previous three wives are still alive? A widower taking a new wife doesn't make him a polygamist!
Also, his fourth wife, his son's widow, is not related to him, so there is no incest involved and no reason why any children resulting from the union should not be healthy, even though their father is perhaps a little past his sell by date!

Frie, Echternach, Grand duchy of Luxembourg

This is why its important that we make education for every single person on this planet a goal.

chetas, croydon, surrey

Interesting... I would like to know what is the relationship between the kids from his son and his kids by this wife.

Sisters & brothers, Uncles & aunts, etc...

Can someone clarify?

WOW.... One big family/family.....

Andy, Bridgetown, Barbados

The assumption here seems to be that this man had all 4 wives at one time. As he is 90-something, he may have been a widower at any given time. His libido probably outlasted the libidos of wives 1-3 if they are indeed still living. Many of my Indian friends say that their mothers tend to think of themselves as old even at age 60. Of course to me, that's not old! However, I can see a scenario where his wives may have decided that they were past the sex thing. Maybe they were relieved that he found that kind of comfort somewhere else. Just a theory.

Annie, Houston, TX

Guy`s what`s the difficulty here. The problem would be having it off with your Father`s wife (smile) and not the other way round. This guy is doing what is coming to him natural. And that is according to civilisation of these people that has not been tainted with food preservative`s, glycerine and E numbers. Nature has someheow selected him to progate and will shut him off somehow when mother nature decides time is up. Long live and live and and let let live. Don`t judge for you know not what hand you have been dealt. Peace to all.

Jomo wa Mburujo, Urumu City, Okinawa, Japan

This is ridiculous. He and his child should undergo DNA test.

suresh samani, ahmedabad, india

Right, a meat-only diet for me from now on! Nanu, is a legend, way to go!

Ross, London,

Yuri..please grow up! This is the exception rather than the norm. Not everything is an Orient v/s Occident situation!

And as far as the other two suggestions about " not contributing to overpopulation", respect for life etc. are concerned....if only it were that easy to deal with the sort of heterogenity in populations that exists here! Dont judge a situation without first undertsanding the context in which it occurs.

Amrit, Delhi, India

Nice to see so many comments offering congratulations.
As opposed to observations and advise from people who can't get their closed minds around a different culture from our own perfect western model.

After being on this planet for 90 years and experiencing how it's run, I think I might see the world a little differently.

Douglas, Crawley, UK

Yes polygamy should be averted and the person above is not belonging to any culture. He is a Hindu by name but 98% of Hindus in the world has only one wife. So this person just happens to have fascination about women and reproduction.

The reason his children wont have any other financial problems, is because they will look up and go for public education and then move to farming. Life in Indian villages are different than to cities and in total contrast to what we live in the developed world.

Farmers, often believe that more children they have less they have to pay in wages for servants for farming. And it perfectly works out - for them and for the children too - they all live in a joint family and all income comes directly in to the family and evenly distributed after cutting all family expenses.

So, pointing at someone's culture is of no use - because Indians polygamy and even distant family / relations marriages are not acceptable.

M Desai, London, England

Not a great role model for a country of 1.1 billion struggling to feed its children. I'm told by my Indian born American colleague that polygamy is unlawful in India as in most places that the gentleman in question has had just one partner at any given time. Purely academic.

Martin Bicknell, London, UK

I know it's culture clash, but eeeeyugh!!

S. Main, Turriff,

Before anybody goes off slagging the old man for marrying his dead son's wife - think what will happen to the poor girl if she were to return to her family. She will be considered a burden to the family and a disgrace. Now, she is loved by her new husband and continue to take care of her family. Do not judge a different society with your rose tinted glasses, especially when u have things like social security.
Well done old man - for taking care of the poor girl. The new baby is god's gift for your good deed.

martin ng, London, UK

Bravo, Bravo Mr. Jogi... I love his sense of family. He is obviously very proud of his children. And what a cutey she is.

Who are we to pass judgement on another person's culture? He may think we are self-centered and obnoxious- to be a society that prides itself on "me", what it matters to "me" how "I" feel... we are not ones to talk badly of another's culture when we have mothers who kill their babies and fathers who will abandon their offspring because he's not man enough to face the responsibility.

How many of you can say you even know someone who has been married for 65 years? In many cultures the father or other sons in a family will marry or take in the wife of a son or brother... it's the sense of family and carrying on the family name for the man who died. If only we didn't throw away our relatives. Sure it may not be the ideal culture- but whose is?

Blessings Mr. Jogi on you and your family.

Daelynn, Kilgore, USA/TX

Rosie, I'd say he is supporting them. He farms and hunts. I don't think his family go hungry. For that matter they probably won't be obese either. If he can support 4 wives why shouldn't he? I would have appreciated another pair of hands to help with the cleaning, cooking and childcare. Now I'm a widow, I'm on my own. It would have been nice to have a sister-wife to share the grief. Why was it wrong to marry his daughter in law? He did the honourable thing and supported her and her children, then married her. He could have sent her back to her parents where she and her children would have been a drain on them. They aren't blood relatives after all. I think the UK is one of the few countries where you can't marry in laws. Different country, different way of life. That doesn't make it wrong.

Beryl, WINDSOR, England

why is everyone so negative. he is not claimng benefits from you. let him live his life how he wants. if you want moan about someone, moan about the people who have 10 kids and have never worked in their lives... while claiming benefits.

vik, london,

A thought for RM - there's no real pension system in India, so a widow has little chance of support unless her late husband's family are prepared to support her. This is the reason behind the custom of suttee, where a widow throws herself on her hsuband's funeral pyre. Perhaps this man married his son's widow partly out of a sense of responsibility to support her. Don't rush to judge so harshly unless you understand the circumstances.

Neil Anderson, Baku, Azerbaijan

RM from Sydney seems like an open-minded, intelligent chap. "Obviously ploygamy is offensive, primitive and appalling" - really? Maybe to you, but you don't sound like you know much about it. Polygamy works (and performs a range of essential functions) in a lot of societies across the globe.
You also seem to have a very shaky grasp on the nature of in-breeding; Mr Jogi's son's widow is not actually his blood relative...and the comment relating to the "cultural backwardness" of India - with one of the richest cultural heritages in the world - has to be a joke, coming from an Australian, surely?

AP, Amsterdam, Netherlands

How can you all be so ethnocentric and dismiss cultures that are thousands of years older than your own as automatically barbarian? If anything you should be in awe of them and be more curious about their way of life, not condemn it. What makes you so much better? Their civilization and way of life has been around way longer than our western cultures and it must obviously work since they are still here. Maybe that's the problem with our society is that we have strayed too far from our roots, they don't have the widespread problems with crime and moral decline and such as we do. Something to think about.......

Paul, Augusta, GA/USA

In response to the first comment, it is kind of irrelevant what you and I think are the reasons that he has lived so long, this is the reason he himself gave. Sure he probably does not have the education or knowledge about health and nutrition that we have but this is what he believes has made him live that long.

In response to the second comment, nowhere in the article does it say that polygamy was being practiced. Sure, I jumped to the polygamy conclusion too but it is not mentioned in the article and is pure speculation.

I'm not even really sure what the third comment is driving at. That a 90 year old man fathering a child is somehow linked to the decline of Western Civilisation? Well, that sounds positively biblical to me.

Shrug.

inkognitoh, London, UK

So he married his widowed daughter-in-law?? Not exactly a heart-warming tale then - stomach-churning, more like

MB, Edinburgh,

Why would a daughter-in-law marry her father? i know india's culture and traditions are different but it's a bit hard to take in.

Kat Lin, Birmingham,

for me it is completely ridiculous!

Dirce, Vitória, Brasil

Polygamy was logical when we lived on an empty planet, empty of us, that is. The practice is now insanity from the point of view of biological diversity.

gerry, exeter, england devon

No way, he said -I eat all kinds of meat: rabbits, lamb, chicken and wild animals,” he said. “There is a dense forest around the village. I go hunting most days and eat whatever I catch. Lots of food is my secret to staying healthy. I will survive another few decades to take care of these kids!” - Meat is not the answer, the secret of his long life is in the part where he says -"“There is a dense forest around the village". Eating meat frequently is bad for healthy.
He lives in a farm, working hard, with a pure environment, cler air, no publicity, advertisement, consumism, and that is life, not lies.

luis, México, City

So he is looking forward to having a son whose father is half dead before the poor guy is even born. Obviously polygamy is primitive, offensive and appalling for society but having it off with your own son's wife is also revolting and at best ridiculous and embarrassing. I presume their offspring will want to marry the son's previous offspring too?

Meanwhile this sorry society will just have to continue to cop its resulting genetic infirmities and cultural backwardness. Come on guys, you are in the 21st c whether your particular calendar says that or not - reform your appalling ways. Have some respect for life.

RM, Sydney , Australia

You see... so many difficulties to pro-create in Occident with artificial assisted fecundation, in one side, and in the other quirurgical or hormonal permanent abortions...
and you see, those in the "colonies" just performing much better than you and without secondary effects !
Science is not quite brilliant and everything is chaotic here, where it was supposed to be the opposit. And where you suppose it is chaos (probably after colonialism) it seems that everything is in the right order, working perfectly...
Instead, here, these "oldies", but even youngsters, needing lorries of medicines are in a permanent incapacity... except for pub crawling!
You are loosing... the life!
In few generations you will be seen in the museums, like the Romans, with your gadgets: laptops, anti-depressive pills, abortion inventions, electric toothbrushes, anti-stress manuals, morgatges with fees formulars and HIPS, plastic money, ... nothing interesting at all!
That is "civilisation".

Yuri Balaton, budapest, hungary

Well there's certainly still some lead in that old Indian pencil.
Must start eating a couple of dozen pork pies a week if meat is the answer !

Phil de Buquet, Newport, England

Good man - I hope I'm still fit enough to get jiggy with it at his age

Bob, London,

"The world’s oldest new dad has fathered his 21st child at the age of 90 and he says that he plans to continue breeding for at least another decade."

omg! Indians are going to take ove the world!

Goldberg, Texas, USA

This old geezer should only have the number of wives (ie ONE) and children that he can support. He is actually contributing to the overpopulation dilemma - just replace yourself and your wife - no more.
Give it up old man!

Rosie, Tucson, Arizona