India’s Modi L;eads Yoga Day Celebration In Kashmir
Stretching, arching his back and kneeling on a mat, India’s Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi led hundreds of people performing yoga in the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir on Friday. The exercises in Srinagar, the capital of the Indian-administered part of the disputed territory, marked the 10th International Yoga Day, Modi’s own brainchild. But while yoga is not itself a religious practice, it has its origins in Hindu philosophy — […]