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Reclaiming Yoga
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Reclaiming Yoga

Hiral Dave- April 22, 2022

  (Image: istockphoto.com) In an interview with The Wall Street Journal recently Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that he uses non-sleep deep rest, or NSDR, ... Read More

A New Assault on Ayurveda
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A New Assault on Ayurveda

Rahul Goswami- June 27, 2020

By the early 20th century, the science of ayurveda had been all but banished from the theatre of medicine in India. In the early 21st, ... Read More

Ayurveda promotes fundamentalism, fascism!
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Ayurveda promotes fundamentalism, fascism!

Milind Sathye- October 29, 2018

Joseph Alter seems to imply that nature cure was unknown to Indians and that only after a book was first compiled thereon in Germany by ... Read More

Cultural History of Medicinal Plants in India
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Cultural History of Medicinal Plants in India

M A Alwar- September 26, 2018

Indian thinkers of yore envisaged that humans, animals and plants should play a complementary and supplementary role to each other leading to mutual harmony of ... Read More

Time is Ripe for Deeper Look at Indian Knowledge Systems
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Time is Ripe for Deeper Look at Indian Knowledge Systems

Smrithi Adinarayanan and Varalakshmi Lakshminarayanan- October 5, 2017

It is time to call for interdisciplinary explorative research across Indian knowledge systems like yoga, ayurveda and jyotisha, the benefits of which can reach a ... Read More