India pulls the plug on yoga as business
The Times of India, 6 February 2011
NEW DELHI, INDIA: India has completed documenting 1,300 ‘asanas’ which will soon be uploaded on the country’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), making them public knowledge. Around 250 of these ‘asanas’ have also been made into video clips with an expert performing them. According to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Union health ministry’s department of Ayush, “once the database is up online, patent offices across the world will have a reference point to check on everytime a yoga guru claims patent on a particular asana.” Read the article …
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