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 NAMASTE to all My Friends

The Value of Namaste and Why it Beats the Handshake

 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 

favorite 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. A New York 

professional Jalanda James's blog "stophandshaking.com" -- possibly the only one of its kind --

 mentions "namaste" among alternatives to the handshake.

More of this entertaining and informative article at source.

IN ISLAM ONE SAY 

ASSALAMU ALAYKUM

(PEACE BE WITH YOU)

AND WHEN LEAVING

ALLAH HAFEEZ

(GOD BE WITH YOU)

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