To Prime Minister Modi To President of the General Assembly To Deputy Secretary General To Your Excellencies To the Ambassador To all of you, Do not miss the significance of this moment. New York City is the largest and most important city in America. As I stand before you as the Mayor of that City, I share with you in a [...]
The US patent office has over one thousand forms of designer yoga waiting for approval. Is it any wonder, the Western media treats all things yoga, as some sort of flakey, New Age hippy-shit when it is actually a symbiote of Hinduism? [...]
It shows that the older spiritual idea of India is still strong and is undergoing a resurgence. Today two different ideas of India are struggling with each other in a cultural war that is likely to continue for some time. The first can be called the “Nehruvian idea” of a modern post-independence India as a [...]
June 20, 2016
Vamadev Shastri
Analysis/Insights, Archives
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 [...]