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August 14 Mind your EnglishDEHRADUN: For teachers in Uttaranchal, it is virtually back to basics-ABC when it comes to learning the English language. And they don't mind learning the language in a classroom at Dehra Dun especially when teachers are from Ireland. "We are learning how to improve our English especially at the basic level," said Pushpa Bisht, a primary school teacher at Khasonsi, a remote village in Jaunsar tribal area in the hill state. Bisht admits she did not know much English though she teaches the language to village children. Like Bisht, there are hundreds of teachers who are still not very good in English, officials said. For improving the English skills of these teachers, a group of teachers from the prestigious John Scottus School of Dublin, Ireland, have volunteered to teach the modern English. These school teachers are teaching the English language using techniques like phonetics, visual aid, books and audio cassettes. "The English is changing. It is more of an American English than the queen's language," said Rutger Kortenborst, an English teacher, who graduated from the prestigious Trinity College of Ireland. September 29 Gentle yoga at the Newport Recreation CenterGentle yoga at the Newport Recreation Center
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YOGA CLASSES September 28 India to protect yoga from 'pirates'India to protect yoga from 'pirates'NEW DEHLI, India -- The Indian government says gurus and fitness instructors in Europe and the United States are stealing yoga practices that are thousands of years old. "We know of at least 150 asanas (yoga positions) that have been pirated in the U.S., the UK, Germany and Japan," said Vinod Gupta, the head of a new Indian government task force on traditional knowledge and intellectual-property theft. The task force 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 computerized contents will soon be made available to patent offices worldwide. Officials say the worst "culprits" are Indians based in America, where yoga has become a $30 billion-a-year business. Yoga, Ayurveda in MBBS course Loosen Up for Lunch" Yoga Series Begins Tuesday
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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.
Foreign practitioners are already said to have claimed hundreds of patents and copyrights on poses and techniques lifted straight from classical Indian yoga treatises. "Yoga piracy is becoming very common and we are moving to do something about it," says Vinod Gupta, the head of a recently established Indian government taskforce on traditional knowledge and intellectual property theft. "We know of at least 150 asanas [yoga positions] that have been pirated in the US, the UK, Germany and Japan. These were developed in India long ago and no one can claim them as their own." 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. The worst 'culprits' are Indians based in America, where yoga has become a $30 billion (£16 billion) - a-year business - a growth fuelled by celebrity adherents such as Madonna. Among Western gurus who have prompted the concern, according to an Indian official, is Bikram Choudhury, whose "Bikram" or "Vikram" method is currently one of the most fashionable styles in the West. A session involves a series of 26 poses in a room heated to 32C (90F) to 38C (100F), enabling pupils to adopt more "extreme" positions than at normal temperatures. A spokesman for Mr Choudhury refused to discuss the taskforce report, but the guru has previously said that rather than claiming intellectual ownership of the individual postures themselves, he has copyrighted a sequence of poses, the dialogue that accompanies them and the environment in which they are performed during his classes. These, he claims, are all of his own devising. The US Patents Office has issued 134 patents on yoga accessories, 150 yoga-related copyrights and 2,315 yoga trademarks, says the Indian taskforce. It also claims that Britain has approved at least 10 trademarks relating to yoga training aids that are mentioned in ancient texts. According to one report, attempts have even been made in America to patent the syllable "om", the sacred sound with which Hindus begin their chants. "No one should be able to claim ownership of these traditional postures," said Dr Gupta. "The information has been in the public domain in India for thousands of years. But, until now, it has only been available in languages which people in the outside world cannot understand." Special computer software has been developed to translate the ancient texts into English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. "This is a very good idea," says B K S Iyengar, the 86-year old yoga guru credited with having introduced yoga to the West in the 1970s. "Yoga is an essential part of our heritage and India has to protect it." The move is part of a larger project to document all sources of traditional Indian knowledge. The database contains details of thousands of herbal treatments drawn from age-old health systems. So far, 10 million of an estimated 30 million pages of texts in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian have been translated and entered into the digital library. India was alerted to commercial exploitation of its national heritage in 1995, when a US company was granted a patent on the wound-healing properties of turmeric. Two years later, another company was granted a patent on basmati rice. India successfully challenged both patents. September 19 Hart Felt adds yoga instructors
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