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Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Social media has been a powerful medium in exposing the sinister campaign against RSS.
While reviewing some of the tweets by
anti RSS propagandists, I felt it is necessary to expose some of the
popular myths about RSS. A lot of people are blindly ranting against
Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh, without getting proper information. You
can't change everyone, but at least you can put some facts on the table.
So here we go.. Note that these are not the official statements of RSS,
but that of general social media population in India today. Full credit
to the original thinkers and the original photographers, for the
information presented here onwards.
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It is extremely classist. It lacks plurality and inclusiveness. I do
not see many people of blue-collar backgrounds who can afford these
classes on a regular basis and many of them are precisely the ones who
could probably benefit the most from yoga. Most of the studios in my
city charge around $1200 for an unlimited yearly membership. That’s
serious coin. I can hardly envision a stressed, single mother trying to
raise her kids on social assistance being able to afford that when she
probably needs the benefits of yoga more than the pampered trophy wife
who just returned form her 5-star shamanistic initiation retreat in
Bolivia. I walk into most of my yoga classes and I see nothing but a sea
of white faces, maybe the token black and Asian. Some people may read
that as a racist statement but I’m not trying to be racist and this
isn’t a reverse racism argument either, it is just my observation. Yoga
in North America caters to the affluent and is falling in line with the
capitalist system of profit. It is increasingly distancing itself from
the roots of yoga.
I can barely make out one non-Caucasian at this Bikram yoga training session.
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