Beijing : The International Day of Yoga was “quite a demonstration” with massive participation worldwide but it has also brought up religious divisions in India, a state-run think tank here has claimed.
The event has set two new records, for holding the largest yoga demonstration in a day and for “the participation of the largest number of nationalities in a single yoga event”, said an article by Wang Dehua, head of the Institute for the Southern and Central Asian Studies of the Shanghai Municipal Centre for International Studies. The article, titled “Yoga Day brings up long-standing sectarian worries in diverse India” and published in the state-run Global Times on Thursday, however, was silent about big yoga get-togethers held in China, where the discipline has caught on in a big way in recent years.
