(21 Jun 2023)
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New Delhi, India - 21 June 2023
1. Participants stretching
HEADLINE: India celebrates International Yoga Day
2. Instructor Shyam Gupta leading session
3. Participants in session
ANNOTATION: Hundreds of yoga practitioners have gathered in a park in New Delhi to mark International Yoga Day.
4. Various of participants
ANNOTATION: Yoga, an ancient discipline first practiced by Hindu sages, is now one of India’s most successful cultural exports after Bollywood.
5. Various of session
ANNOTATION: Nine years ago, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi successfully lobbied the U.N. to designate June 21 as International Yoga Day.
6. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Rashmi Sinha, yoga practitioner:
“To take it to the masses and create its identity, this has been done by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and today not only in the country but all over the world people now believe in it without any bias of class and caste.”
7. Mid of poster of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ++OVERLAID ON SOUNDBITE++
8. Participants in session ++OVERLAID ON SOUNDBITE++
9. Pan of yoga session
ANNOTATION: Modi has used yoga to try and boost his image in India, which has become fragmented largely along religious lines.
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of yoga practitioners have gathered in a park in New Delhi to mark International Yoga Day.
Yoga, an ancient discipline first practiced by Hindu sages, is now one of India’s most successful cultural exports after Bollywood.
Nine years ago, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi successfully lobbied the U.N. to designate June 21 as International Yoga Day.
Modi has used yoga to try and boost his image in India, which has become fragmented largely along religious lines.
AP video shot by Rishi Lekhi.
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