‘It’s Pranayama’: Indians React to NYT Article on Deep Breathing

The New York Times article, titled "Why Deep Breathing May Keep Us Calm", describes how deep breathing results in good health. It took an elaborate study on mice in a lab for Stanford researchers to understand the benefits of deep breathing, which, by the way, India discovered long ago – thanks to yoga and our age-old Vedas.

And of course, Indians had a lot of things to say in reaction to the article.

Really?And no mention of pranayama or Yoga? Does it take Stanford researchers with a lab full of mice to tell you what yogis knew aeons ago? https://t.co/Z8FD2b4tLM

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) April 9, 2017

@anuraggupta77 @rkc28 @anandmahindra Western medicine yet not able to cure anything only able to suppress it with antibiotics till they become immune and new anti biotics need

— Justindian (@Justindian5) April 9, 2017

First time? Ancient Rishis' in India, knew this more than 5000 years ago and applied the knowledge in different #Yoga techniques. #Pranayama https://t.co/DGMrAQINAO

— Sanjay Sabnis (@SanjaySabnis) April 10, 2017

Duffers. It's common knowledge in India. It's called prAnAyAma. Get yourselves an education! https://t.co/h1CW6DeeaN

— || रम्या || (@SriSutaa) April 10, 2017

@AgentSaffron @anandmahindra Better way to express it could have been: scientists have found out why Pranayama is so calming.

— Indiafirst (@ideafirst21) April 10, 2017

Really?And no mention of pranayama or Yoga? Does it take Stanford researchers with a lab... https://t.co/LrlgGptMRE by #HinduRajyam

— Ashok Kumar Tiwari (@Neomatrix02) April 9, 2017

@rkc28 @anandmahindra Yes that is why India is centuries ahead of the US in medicine and science....

— Anurag Gupta (@anuraggupta77) April 9, 2017

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