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Business of Yoga ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25Yoga-t.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th

One more Yoga teacher emerges ...

It's intriguing to see Americans rushing to Yoga in such numbers. It's important to remember that Americans are fickle and rush to many things.

Strange also to see this peculiar Indian thing called Yoga transformed into something so quintessentially American ... molded and Americanized.

Well, it's all right I guess ... as Indians trample over themselves to Americanize themselves by hankering for larger cars and hamburgers and 500-Lt refrigerators and 100 inch LCD TVs and other items of conspicuous consumption in general, Americans try to imbibe this form of 'ancient' Indian wisdom ...

Good thing ... the West trying to emulate the East and the East trying to ape the West!

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