Alarmed by the growing number of instances of Western yoga gurus claiming copyrights to ancient “asanas”, the Government of India has decided to fight back.
The Union Health Ministry has assembled a team of 200 researchers from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to put on record all known yoga postures and techniques in a comprehensive database called Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL).
The Government of India hopes that future patent applications would be rejected on the basis of “prior art” from the information in the TKDL.
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there are so many yoga studios here in USA its almost like an epidemic. Actually what it is is just people trying to make money, I think its capitilstic nature that in free society any one can do any thing as long its legal, but the in this money making furer the real meaning of yoga is forgotten, to give an example here in Kansas City USA in our Temple we have a free yoga class for any one to come and attend actually only very few all Indian’s attend this class eeven though its free and provided by qualified teachers. Where as out side in shopping centers all over there are yoga studios they charge money not qualified but people go there in large numbers is it beacuse local Christian mejority thinks yoga is some how associated to Hindu religion. The chiristians are afrid that people who practicess yoga will convert to Hindusium. That’s totally absurd its Christians who solicit people to covert Hindus never do that.
Written by sathyanarayana on 03.18.09