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International Yoga Day: World waits in awe to celebrate India's moment as global spiritual capital

It was none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi on whose behest the United Nations decided to declare 21 June 2015 as ‘International Yoga Day’. Export of Indian spirituality to the West started with Swami Vivekananda’s historic speech at the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893. It was followed by setting up of a Vedanta Society in New York in 1894, in Northern California in 1900 and in Boston […]