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NAMASTE To All My Friends

The Value of Namaste and 

Why it Beats the Handshake

 

CHINA, July 6, 2015 (China Post by Raja Murthy): 

At 3:30 p.m. eastern time on July 3, 

U.S. President Barack Obama was online on Twitter,

 taking questions on his new health care and

 Affordable Care Act. Quite likely Obama is 

unaware of his importing from his India visit 

this January a lesser known but significant 

practice to health care: avoiding the handshake.

 The farewell to India picture of Obama was

 my favourite from his visit -- 

the smiling president and his wife 

Michelle silently saying "Namaste" 

from the door of Air Force One.

 

As a greeting or farewell, the sincere 

"Namaste,"

 "Namaskar," or 

"Vannakam" (in Tamil) has to rank 

topmost among the most gracious of 

human gestures: conveying humility, 

respect and goodwill to a fellow being. 

It beats the handshake hollow. I have 

no idea how, why and when the handshake

 first became the global gesture of greeting,

 but I do know it may be time to bid a 

farewell "Namaste" to the handshake.

 

Medical tests prove it. Handshakes are a dangerous 

enough transmitter of disease that some U.S. doctors 

have called for the handshake to be banned in hospitals.

 The handshake is easy transfer of lethal micro-creatures 

like the Escherichia coli (E.coli) bacteria, found 

researchers David E. Whitworth and 

Sarah Mela of the Institute of Biological, 

Environmental and Rural Sciences, 

Aberystwyth University, Wales. 

The American Journal of Infection Control published

 their study in July, 2014.

 

This respectful greeting could be 

India's next beneficial gift to the world.