Posted on 24 January 2009
If you are a yoga enthusiast, it may be worthwhile asking the following questions
- With so many varieties of yoga being promoted today, each one claiming to be superior and pure, do they have any semblance to the yoga that was practiced in ancient India?
- Has the therapeutic or preventive efficacy of yoga in any of the states of human health and disease been conclusively proven?
- Is the practice of yoga totally safe?
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Posted on 09 January 2009
Press Release
The Govt. of Karnataka has drawn up plans for introducing Yoga as a compulsory learning for the students in the state and the information that we have obtained under the Right to Information Act confirms that the Govt. is planning to start the project all over the state, right from the first standard.
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Posted on 04 September 2008
This article was written by Prabir Ghosh and Sumitra Padmanabhan
The program Muqabla on NDTV on January 7, 2006, from 10p.m. to 11.30p.m. showed Prabir Ghosh, the General Secretary of Science & Rationalists’ Association of India face to face with Swami Ramdev, the latest Guru of India.
The guru, a self proclaimed healer of all diseases could not answer some point blank questions by Prabir. This very popular program conducted by Mr.Debang ended with a challenge thrown by Prabir on behalf of the Rationalists’ Association of India. In this challenge, a patient sent by Prabir has to be cured of his ailment and a bald-headed man selected from Delhi will have to be cured of his baldness by growing hair on his scalp; both by using Ramdev’s Yogic therapy and not by using any modern medicine or skin-grafting etc.
No. Ramdev-ji did not accept the challenge. Read more about this “guru” is Prabir’s own words.
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