Whereas some IE scholars see the IE roots of Yoga, a new group wants to deny completely its Hindu heritage, effectively projecting it as a modern practice and snapping any potential links with the PIE heritage.
Recently, the post-modernist cum Leftist writer Meera Nanda wrote an article denying that Hathayoga can be called Hindu or Vedic. A brief rebuttal to her essay (linked in the rebuttal) by Swaminathan Venkatraman (BOD, HAF) is now provided at
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/international/the-audacity-of-ignorance
Sincerely,
Vishal Agarwal