Namaste, Please

New Delhi : Until yesterday the top communication skills trainer, who has been making much of handshaking while training in social graces and Spoken English has taken to streets, asking people to shake it off and adopt the Indian culture of greeting with Namaste that hardly allows any physical contacts.

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Now he is on a mission of making people aware of how to ward off coronavirus as there is there no sure cure to it. He launched a novel way of campaign-Namaste March on 7th of this month, leading a group of a hundred of students on the roadside of Vikas Marg in East Delhi which witnessed youth clinging placards to their chests and putting their palms together onto their hearts.

A placard in their hands reads ‘no handshaking, please, say only Namaste, please whereas another says, ‘stick to the Indian culture of greetings, beware of western meetings! Others include ‘no embracing, no infection, no hugging, and no contagion. Up with the Indian Culture!  Down with the Corona Vulture! Such was a dozen of slogans giving the message to passersby on the busy road on the day.

The march was set off under none other than the noted author and activist Dr Birbal Jha, appealing to both national and international audiences to revert to or adopt the Indian culture of salutation with Namaste, instead of other greetings that engage physical contacts.

“Don’t scare the people; rather care for them given the outbreak of Covid-19.  No handshaking is shaking a virus off.

Moreover, the yogic Namaste, taken from Anjali Mudra of Pranamasana, meaning I bow to the divine in you is very preventive when it comes to dealing with a germ”, says Dr Birbal Jha, who heads British Lingua, an institute of communication skills training of international repute.“The exclamatory namaskar, a part of the Indian culture, has been in practice since the Rig Veda, one of the four Vedas, paving the way for cheerfulness and the wellbeing of mankind.

Hence, this ‘Namaste March’ has a lot to offer to the world given physical contacts being medically disallowed and therefore being frowned at”, adds social entrepreneur Dr Jha leading youth in hundreds.