The yoga debate.

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Yoga has spurred a political and legal debate in India. A measure by officials in Madhya Predesh, a state in central India, would have required all public-school students to perform a yoga exercise and recite Hindu chants during a statewide event on January 25. But Muslim and Christian groups argued in court that it violated India's constitutional separation of religion and state. The court ruled that neither the chants...