Thanks for your encouraging words. And detailed message. It is amongst the most sensible messages I've seen since I have started writing on Rediff.com. The purpose of message boards is for having an intelligent discussion and exchange of views, news and assistance (as with problems etc). And messages must need have a coherence of thought. I see that your message reflects this role aptly: unfortunately, message boards otherwise seem to be used more by people regressing into juvenile-teen mentality or who misuse it smear net grafitti or worse, lavatories for their verbal diarrhoea:) You have restored my faith in the freedom this medium upholds. And about my views on this topic you mention, I have blogged extensively on this, and you will find my take on it at my blogsite, mentioned above on such topics like Turmeric. In any case, it is a subject close to my heart and bothers me a lot, because though the government of India has woken up patenting in yoga, its still not taken an aggressive stance on this. The last I heard of this was that it was preparing a list of yoga asanas/practices and props that it intended to give to the International body dishing out these patents, to dissuade it from issuing such patents (and I know prestigious yoga institutes like VKS was involved in helping the government in compiling this list). But I have not seen any subsequent media report on whether the compilation of this list is complete or whether it has been handed over to the concerned in