Hindu American Foundation

In a recent column, Communist Party of India Marxist (CPIM) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury denounced the International Yoga Day as a shallow lifestyle gimmick and an attempt to Hinduise India’s diverse society at the cost of attending to serious problems like poverty. Though he concedes that yoga might be beneficial to the individual’s health and [...]

The evangelicals, it appears, are in a bind—they want to capitalize on the mounting popularity of yoga, but how can they embrace a practice steeped in Hinduism without compromising their dogmatic exclusivity? They can’t authentically do that, and so, yoga is repackaged into a Christian avatar and forcibly divorced from its roots. The commercialization of [...]

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Washington:A U.S.-based Hindu-American group has launched a mass campaign against a Congressional resolution on religious freedom and human rights in India and urged the U.S. government to continue its policy to not to grant visa to Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate.  The legislation (HR 417), introduced on November 18, by Congressmen Keith Ellison [...]

India has now however rightfully made a move to patent Yoga asanas and will probably patent more of the indigenous Hindu practices in the years to come. [...]