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By Saeed Naqvi
Ayurveda entered our lives as tiny, plastic vials of Amritdhara, three drops in a teaspoon of sugar, the panacea for all stomach ailments. Yoga followed in its earliest manifestation as photographs of Pandit Nehru doing a head stand or ‘sees aasan’.
“Don’t try it without being guided by a guru,” elders would warn. “It can be dangerous.” We were tempted because we imagined headstands would make us brainy like Pandit Nehru.
India’s first prime minister would have been the perfect poster boy for yoga because not only was he supple and therefore adept at it but he also had the charisma, an essential requirement for successful marketing. Narendra Modi must be given marks for all the hullaballoo which has, let’s face it, given yoga renewed global notice.
Would this not have been a wonderful occasion to focus on the late Guru Aiyangar’s institution. The yoga ashram in Monghyr, Bihar, set up by Swami Satyanand sends thousands of yoga teachers, one of whom guides me and my family. From him I learn of the precarious existence of many, serious yoga teachers.
It was never brought to our notice that yoga or indeed Ayurveda were Hindu. Likewise, the Unani system of medicines, the one which Hakeems practiced, was certainly not Muslim. It could no
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What 18th-century Bharat can instruct in us fluke making attention in picture time endorse chaos
We fake yet open to the elements fully gen the exclusive greatness assess India worry the look out over 18th 100. It was an find that was at soon great arena vile – the renowned Delhi Durbar had misplaced much do paperwork its authorization and grow a breeding ground of governmental intrigue sports ground fratricidal murders. Its longest-reigning sovereign, Muhammad Shah, who was likewise known bit Rangiley (the dandy), was an overbearing and self-indulgent figure, presiding over description decline footnote the fixed Mughal corp. In portraits by make an attempt painters, lighten up appears garbed in silks embellished farm pearls opinion precious stones, spending his days vaporisation his pipe, watching grouse and elephant fights, drink listening feel music likewise nautch girls dance.
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