On Day 2, Session 3, Dr. Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor in the Department of Socio Medical Sciences and Faculty Lead in the Center for History and Ethics of Public Health. at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, said: “Ayurveda has also, in this new fashion, facilitated a platform that is not only ideological, but it's also offered, and I'd like to stress this, this prospects really of global networks of capital. And what Modi, in a recent meeting, called wellness tourism, that really the current government has extolled and held forth by advancing claims about Ayurveda’s ancient history, its indigenous scientific genealogy, and by stressing really its alternative nature, it's alternative nature that's made out to be gentle, holistic, not reductive, and interventionist like biomedicine. It allows Hindu ideologues to refer to the wonder of cures and therapies, whether it's of cow urine and dung. At the same time, what it does, it really blunts or masks, the real violence of cow vigilante groups, and of caste and minority phobias. Ayurveda, therefore, becomes a kind of theater devoid of a certain kind of authentic meaning, which I think Ayurvedic practices do possess. And by performing this theater, in a way you're taking away from the sorts of pervasive violence that has become characteristic in terms of politics, but also public health.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQNI6UFbK70 at 26:42