About Us

Delhi Laughter Club (DLC) is dedicated to promote laughter yoga in Delhi since 2001 with the initiative of Dr. Umesh Sahgal and this way DLC has been in the service of the Society for the last 17 years for spreading and making awareness about the benefits of laughter in the masses, otherwise people have forgotten laughing in the fast paced life. The main aim is to create an atmosphere of happiness , spread message of Love, Happiness, Joy & Friendship and bring smile & cheers on everybody’s face, with the ultimate aim to make Happy & Healthy/Stress free Society.

Delhi Laughter Club is a non-communal, non-commercial and a non-political organization. Initially, The laughter movement was initiated by Dr. Madan Kataria, the Pioneer and MD, Founder of the Laughter Club movement on 13th March, 1995 with just 5 people, but it has spread its wings in 80 countries with 16000 branches across the World. In Delhi, the concept of Laughter Yoga was introduced by Dr. Umesh Sahgal, Dental Surgon, now the Chief Advisor of Delhi Laughter Club.

Laughter has been proved to be an ideal solution, the easiest, safest and the most cost effective for physical, mental, social and spiritual well being. It contributes powerfully to maintain health and happiness of the individual. Laughter fulfils the statement of World Health Organization that “a person who is physically, mentally, socially/emotionally & spiritually fit” is an energetic/happiest person and laughter yoga can facilitate this.

Initially, Dr. Umesh Sahgal started laughter club in Derawal Nagar – a residential colony in North Delhi with 10 people only, who used to walk and do exercise for 10 minutes only. Mr. SS Pammi who is Advisory Board Member now joined Dr. Sahgal for the support for further expanding laughter in other part of Delhi. On the insistence / guidance of Dr. Umesh Sahgal that Laughter with exercises are more beneficial than walking & exercises. The people realized and experienced instant positive changes in the body within few days. They further experienced more that they feel fresh, happy and positive and even they found behavioural change too at home and at work.

inspired by the response and interest shown by the masses, Dr. Umesh Sahgal decided to move further to neighboring residential colony – Model Town. After establishing class in Model Town, Dr. Umesh Sahgal decided to start laughter class in Rohini where his sister was staying. Dr. Umesh Sahgal along with Sh. SS Pammi visited Japanese Rohini Park and started laughter class. Later on Mrs. Neelam Wadhera – now Vice President and Arun Sethi – now President joined in this class and within few days/months, this became a big group. So the Rohini branch became the backbone of laughter club. And with the help of enthusiastic members, an initiative was taken to open more & more classes in Delhi.

Second milestone came when Rana Pratap Bagh branch was opened under an anchorship of Mr. Rakesh Setia. With the induction of energetic members like Davinder Gupta & Durga Dass, they had passion for laughter and they put dedicated efforts to take DLC in more heights.

In 2010, involvement of Mr. Rajeev Narang not only gave a big boost to DLC, but his passion for laughter & corporate expertise took DLC to more further in different dimensions. He not only made our Hasya Tarang totally matched with latest /innovative designs, but took DLC in Corporate Level too.

Mr. Durga Dass was fully dedicated in West Zone of Delhi and with his passion for laughter made him to introduce new classes at East Punjabi Bagh, Rajouri Garden, which proved third mile stone for DLC.

With the support of Dr. Rohit Bhandari, DLC was able to take entry in Tihar Jail No. 3, near Tilak Nagar, where M/s Durga Dass, Davinder Gupta & Ms. Sangeeta Asthana used to go for laughter sessions once in a week. for the whole year 2013. We went in 2014 in Tihar Jail No. 3 for full month also.