
AIIMS starts campaign for Namaste rather than hand-shake
It refers to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) launching campaign in interest of public-health whereby stress is given on greeting each other with folded hands (Namaste) rather than hand-shake as a preventive measure to avoid infections. Otherwise also hand-shake unhygienic because any one or both shaking hands may not have clean hands.
Even American Journal of Infection Control had several years back published a report warning hand-shake to be even more infectious than kissing. Earlier also American health authorities had recommended greeting by folded hands instead of western style by shaking hands or kissing endorsing Indian style of sayingnamaste with folded hands for normal greetings. It is one of many such glorious aspects of Hinduism which are purely based on highly...