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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Mon Jun 22, 2015, 12:47 PM Jun 2015

Yoga Day celebrated worldwide with a push by India’s leader

Reuters

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led tens of thousands of people in a yoga session in the centre of the capital on Sunday to showcase the country’s signature cultural export, which has prompted criticism of fomenting social divisions at home.

The ancient Hindu discipline which has become an estimated $27 billion industry in the United States is being celebrated across the world as an International Yoga Day which Modi pushed for soon after taking power last year.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/06/22/yoga-day-celebrated-worldwide-with-a-push-by-indias-prime-minister/

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