Delhi’s Rajpath witnesses the biggest gathering on International yoga day, With the Prime Minister Narendra Modi too joined an estimated 37,000 people showing Govt is concerned about health of its citizens.
Is govt is really concerned about health? If Political leaders and other organizations are so concerned about health and about religious morality, then why doesn’t India observe an anti-drinking day?
Whether Yoga is being so sincerely pursued by Indian government, the answer lies not in their concern for health but their concern for the corporate gurus which are seeing huge market potential in Yoga.
An article on the increasing fondness of Americans for Yoga says, more than half the US population expressed an interest in practicing yoga, and a 2004 news report claimed that there were nearly 15.5 million yoga practitioners in US.
If government is so much concerned about health, why not ban practices that destroy lives and bring diseases of all kinds to human bodies? The reason lies in the corporatisation of health system, which keeps economic interests ahead of health.
In India many dies because of alcohol, the alcohol have snatch the colors of live of the many people. Deaths from illegally brewed alcohol are common in India because the poor cannot afford licensed liquor.
Recently as many as 84 people have been killed and 12 others are fighting for their lives after drinking toxic home-made liquor in Mumbai. The adverse effect of alcohol results in road accidents. More than half of the deaths in road accidents are attributed to drunken driving.
According to reports in developing nations, alcohol ranks as the fourth cause of disability among men. Deaths attributable to alcohol are 1.6 percent for developing regions while it is 1.3% for developed nations.
Why then Govt not ban alcohol. But this will not happen because alcohol market is one of the biggest of all markets in the world. Instead of banning alcohol, rehabilitation centres and hospitals treating alcohol related diseases are on their way.
With World Day for Yoga, the big industrialists must be having big plans to market Yoga and all its products, especially Western countries. Prime Minister Modi is an ideal partner. What else can be of greater importance to PM. It show his love for corporates?
Govt has removed the Suryanamaskar from the programme, was it in respect to Muslims sentiment?, as has been publicized by the government, or govt is making sure that the marketing of Yoga in West countries and where some other religions are dominant does not face any problems.
If political leaders and other Hindutva organisations are so concerned about health, then they should pressurize the government to observe an anti-drinking day. Let drinkers break their bottles on that day, and let the alcohol flood the canals of Delhi and Mumbai. Muslims will just love it, as it will remind them of the day when the companions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) broke all the wine bottles following the (orders of Allah) revelation of the verse of Quran banning alcohol.