While yoga is the most effective form of exercise, the learners have to take certain precautions. How can a brother leave his young brother, suffering from serious heart diesease, alone and unattended at the yoga camp where thousands of persons are excercising. A camp is not a hospital where there is one-to-one relations between the Doctor-patient.
The camp organisers should not allow persons with serious ailments to attend the camps and should organise special camps where there is more personal relations between the instructors and the person, who is given instructions after proper medical check ups.
Although the loss of a life is a great loss, a stray incident like this should not tarnish the upside of Baba Ramdev's Yoga camps.
According to the news, the boy didn't die in the camp and it is not even clear that whether he attended the camp or the yoga done in camp has caused his death.
I don't understand that why rediff always puts misleading headlines. I have seen this a lot of times that when you clikc a headline, the news inside is often very different and headlines are completely misleading. I think doing so is neither ethical nor a good journalism. This kind of journalism only degrades the credibility of online news reports and I don't expect such thing atleast rediff.
RE:Misleading Headlines
by ankana on Jan 03, 2007 05:02 PM Permalink
Because these are sponsored propaganda by the government to divert the public attention to trivial issues.
As we know Yoga can cure many diseases, we are shock to hear this news. But i feel that the participants will be well informed before starting the class to inform if they have any diseases. If the boy has not done so then it is not the mistake of Baba Ramdev.
So there is no reason just blaming Yoga or Baba Ramdev for such incidents.
Your headline is more seriously misleading than the tragic incident that you have reported. Its only after going thro' the entire news item, that one will be able to understand the true status of the case.
It is not established if the boy died after attending the yoga camp or not.
Going by the headline, one is bound to get worked up and furious against the yoga camp. Your irreponsible catch line is only to add fuel to the fire.
Its good to be responsible to report these incidents to society, but should not be mischievious.
