Foreign media: India aims to take back yoga 'intellectual property'

India's new yoga minister has called on his countrymen to take back yoga from the West, criticizing Indians for ignoring their heritage, foreign media said on December 5
foreign media said Shripard Yeso Naik was tasked with protecting traditional medicine and therapies last month, including Ayurveda, yoga, natural remedies, Unani and Siddhartha, and homeopathy, the Daily Telegraph reported on December 4 "Yoga is an Indian art form, and there's almost no doubt about that," said What we need to do now is to prove to the world that yoga is ours "Naik was previously the minister in charge of tourism was appointed yoga minister by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reflecting the country's desire to clarify that the valuable industry inherits the Indian gene Modi, himself a vegetarian, says he is quick-thinking and flexible, thanks to practicing yoga every day a 2012 survey estimated that 20.4 million people practice yoga in the U.S., up 29 percent from 2008, and that U.S yoga practitioners spend more than $10.3 billion a year on classes Indian officials plan to reintroduce yoga to every aspect of people's lives, including more than 600,000 schools, numerous hospitals and police training centers they have also taken the lead in promoting India's most famous export, and Modi has proposed at the United Nations that yoga be a "geographical indication product" - a trade protection measure that generally gives regionally specific goods such as Parma cheese and champagne The United Nations will consider the proposal on 10 December "It's a kind of medicine that belongs to India, " told a local television station When the British came to India, they cracked down on Indian medicine and tried to impose Western medicine on us - and that's why traditional medicine wasn't being popularized said he practiced yoga every day, "and maybe it was because of this that I got the job" and that promoting Ayurvedic medicine was "a priority" for the government "In the future, we will do everything we can to make India a healthy India, " said He praised the preventive nature of yoga and Ayurvedic medicine the promotion of yoga in India is not the only time it is only now - in 2010, a board member of the Indian American Foundation advised Indians to "take back yoga and take back the intellectual property of this spiritual heritage" Now, with Modi on the prime minister's throne in May, yoga is no doubt a hot thing for the government to attract foreign investors, especially from the health industry, Mr Modi has launched a campaign called "Made in India" The global health industry is estimated to have been worth $8 billion click on the picture to go to the next page
On April 19, a man does yoga on the banks of the Ganges River