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Disguised Hinduphobia

Meera Nanda should learn to get her facts about the Hindu tradition straight, and from original sources.

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7 Mar 2011 | BY Swaminathan Venkataraman
The Ludicrousness of ‘Taking Back Yoga’

Let’s not be so touchy about yoga’s ‘Vedic-Hindu’ origins. Let’s celebrate the mongrel it is.

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25 Feb 2011 | BY Meera Nanda
The Audacity of Ignorance

The HAF counters Meera Nanda’s “not-so-old, nor-so-Hindu” argument about modern-day yoga.

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25 Feb 2011 | BY Swaminathan Venkataraman
Not as Old as You Think

…nor very Hindu either. There is telling evidence to debunk this nationalistic myth

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10 Feb 2011 | BY Meera Nanda
Fusion Footwork

Dance is a test of endurance, says Pandit Chitresh Das, creator of a unique brand of dance that he calls Kathak Yoga.

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28 Jul 2010 | BY Avantika Bhuyan
Anti-Trafficking Asana

On 13 March, at least 1,500 yogis from 20 countries rolled out their yoga mats and performed the Surya Namaskar to raise awareness against human trafficking.

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18 Mar 2010 | BY Shubhangi Swarup
Call her SriDiva

When Sridevi walked into Olive one afternoon in a cream churidar-kurta to wish friend Pinky Reddy a happy birthday, the lunching ladies literally stopped eating.

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29 Jun 2009
The Real Interpreter of Maladies

Is there evidence that yoga helps manage epileptic fits, that shock treatments are useful in treating schizophrenia, that gastric bypass is a long-term weapon in beating obesity? There is a place where you can find out. The Cochrane Library offers evidence-based research culled from clinical trials on thousands of medical queries on everything including yoga for epilepsy (does not help); ECT for schizophrenia (there are short-term uses); and gastric bypass (more effective than conventional treatments).0

25 Jun 2009 | BY Manju Sara Rajan
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