PM Modi, Indian Hindu Women saw what you did
Thanks for erasing and insulting us
This is the statement I posted on social media on July 4th 2021
Guess what Modi did?
His government released a stamp of Indra Devi, a white woman, calling her the “First Lady of Yoga”.
Indra Devi (that’s a fake appropriated name that doesn’t even make grammatical sense) was a Russian actress who went to India during British colonial rule and decided that she wanted to learn yoga. She went to a famous Hindu teacher, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, but he refused to teach her because she was a westerner and had no right to our teaching. This was all during the British colonial rule when the British were systematically exterminating Hindus and especially yoga gurus to kill the practice of yoga entirely.
She then went to the local Hindu king who was Krishnamacharya’s patron and protector from the British and put pressure on him to make Krishnamacharya teach her. The king did what the white woman wanted and forced Krishnamacharya to teach her which is against everything in our values. Yoga is consent based. The student consents to learn and the teacher consents to teach and that is how it is supposed to be. But Krishnamacharya was forced to allow her to stay with him, instruct her each day, and teach…
