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How a Girl from the ‘City of Toys’ made her mark in Yoga on the world stage
Sameeksha V, from Channapatna (also called as 'City of Toys'), who represented Bharat in the 4th Yoga World Championship held at Bulgaria from 28-30th...
International Day of Yoga 2019 in Texas
Thousands of Texans across the state came together to celebrate the 5th International Day of Yoga in partnership with the Consulate General of Bharat...
Islamic countries cannot even tolerate Yoga?
The following news item caught my eye. In Iran, governed by Islamic sharia law, 30 of its citizens were arrested. Their crime? Attending a...
How Yoga Can Save You From Depression
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Yoga is the most popular, yet the most misunderstood and misrepresented Hindu science. Yoga is commonly practiced as a physical training or “spiritual” exercise...
S VYASA inaugurates its yoga center in Houston by Dr. H. R. Nagendra
On 27th April, S-VYASA inaugurated its Yoga Center at the West Oaks Mall, in the presence of its Founder Dr. H. R. Nagendra, yoga...
Westerners Stealing Hindu Intellectual Property is More Than Plagiarism
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Colonial or a white supremacy mindset may be clever enough to adopt Hindu practices but denies giving credit where it is due. Stealing Hindu...
The Magnetic Pull of Bharat’s Soft Power
The word “soft power” was first coined by Harvard scholar Joseph Nye. He described this term as the ability to attract and co-opt, rather...
Bharatiya Traditional Knowledge: A Public Policy Perspective
Recently, twitter witnessed huge outrage over an article tweeted by American Scientific Association which referred to the ancient yogic technique of Pranayam as "Cardiac...
Mantra, Concentration and Meditation
Concentration and Meditation
To reach the meditative state, concentration is required first. A scattered, distracted, and inattentive mind cannot truly meditate, even if one sits...
Bharat’s Foundations of Modern Science
Scholars see Bharat and Greece as the two principal birthplaces of science. School textbooks tell us about Pythagoras, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, and Ptolemy, geometry of...