India adopts fighting position to hold on to ancient yoga poses,
By David Orr in Delhi, News Telegraph (UK)
18/09/2005.

The Indian government is furious that yoga practices dating back thousands
of years are being “stolen” by gurus and fitness instructors in Europe and
the United States….

In an effort to protect India’s heritage, the taskforce has begun
documenting 1,500 yoga postures drawn from classical yoga texts – including
the writings of the Indian sage Patanjali, the first man to codify the art
of yoga. The data is being stored in a digital library whose computerised
contents will soon be made available to patents offices worldwide.

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