Manu Joseph: why the yoga showcased by the government is unlikely to make people fit
We don’t know how popular yoga was in ancient India or whether it was only a preserve of a few, but what we do know is that by the 20th century, Indians had all but abandoned it, especially its vast array of strenuous exercise. B.K.S. Iyengar, who resurrected yoga in the modern world, says so in his memoirs. Not just that, yoga was restricted to upper caste men.
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