Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
Old people, who cannot even sit on floor with ease, I don’t know what good Yoga will do to them — except for making them unnecessarily feel “old” for not being able to do it properly!
Ramdev does some tricks like a circus man, which I doubt are useful even for the young with a supple body. We Indians suffer so deeply and intuitively from an inferiority complex that we look with awe even on a dubious thing like yoga to bolster our self image. Foreigners feel attracted to it out of idle curiosity, I don’t think any of them expects to benefit out of it in tangible terms, but we feel mighty thrilled that something of “ours” is being appreciated by the “gora-loag”!! We Indians will almost feel offended if black-skinned Africans start saying good things about yoga.
Anyway, these are idle ruminations. But it’s good if government is asking old age homes to pay heed to the need for ambulances. (Some old bloke may dislocate a bone while doing yoga!)
Old people, who cannot even sit on floor with ease, I don’t know what good Yoga will do to them — except for making them unnecessarily feel “old” for not being able to do it properly!
Ramdev does some tricks like a circus man, which I doubt are useful even for the young with a supple body. We Indians suffer so deeply and intuitively from an inferiority complex that we look with awe even on a dubious thing like yoga to bolster our self image. Foreigners feel attracted to it out of idle curiosity, I don’t think any of them expects to benefit out of it in tangible terms, but we feel mighty thrilled that something of “ours” is being appreciated by the “gora-loag”!! We Indians will almost feel offended if black-skinned Africans start saying good things about yoga.
Anyway, these are idle ruminations. But it’s good if government is asking old age homes to pay heed to the need for ambulances. (Some old bloke may dislocate a bone while doing yoga!)