Talk:T. K. V. Desikachar

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Dear Moderators, Please provide your inputs on this article. Vnarsimhan (talk) 12:13, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

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Wasn't the KHYF founded in 2016? So Kausthub could not have stepped down in 2012, could he? The KYM and the KHYF obviously co-exist, but the current situation seems complicated and controversial, can somebody please verify and modify this? --Kuhni74 (talk) 14:54, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
 * done. --Kuhni74 (talk) 12:43, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

T.K.V. Desikachar studied under some famous teachers...
, this sentence is now utterly misleading if you look at the cited source (Davies, 2016, p. 105). In Vblni's version from July, 8th, a complete sentence about the recent interviewees of Davies' studies was copied, which does not say a word about who Desikachar's teachers were, but who the teachers of the interviewees were. Since Chiswick Chap's edits, it reads as if the list of teachers were Desikachar's.

On the other hand, in the first paragraph of chapter "Background and career", we still read that "...he studied under his father in the 1960s", and in chapter "Yoga in America" we still read that "59 of Krishnamacharya's students were among modern yoga's most renowned teachers, including ... and Krishnamacharya's son, Desikachar" - is that true or WP:OR? --Kuhni74 (talk) 13:06, 14 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Please be very careful not to cast aspersions. The teachers of Desikachar may well be garbled through multiple edits. There is no doubt at all (many reliable sources) that Krishnamacharya taught pupils who became famous, indeed pioneering, yoga teachers themselves, including Jois, Iyengar, and Devi. There's equally no doubt that Desikachar was Krishnamacharya's son and studied under him. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:22, 14 July 2021 (UTC)


 * I do not question that Krishnamacharya taught many pupils who became famous, but that was neither my point nor the intended meaning of the sentence in question. Thanks for editing the corresponding paragraphs, but now I have the impression that the baby was thrown out with the bathwater and too much text has been deleted. Especially Desikachar's role in America is now missing, while I notice that in the article Yoga in the United States, Desikachar is only mentioned in the box at the bottom (so maybe his role in the USA was smaller than claimed here before). As I'm neither a native English speaker nor a Yoga specialist, I hesitate to edit too much myself here - I was mainly contributing a few things to Desikachar's German WP article and compared the contents with the English version, which raised a few questions. --Kuhni74 (talk) 10:09, 15 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that. There's no evidence he contributed specifically to yoga in America, and the only mentions I can find are of Americans who had travelled to India to learn from him, and of polite refusals to go to America to give a talk. Maybe others can find something more usable; failing that, the removal of the section appears to be correct. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:58, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Kausthub, KYM, KHYF
I do think it's important to read what KYM and KHYF are and how they developed because both refer to Desikachar. If Kausthub had a WP article, I'd agree that the previous information is not directly related to the subject. But as long he has not, I think that the deleted information should be restored. --Kuhni74 (talk) 20:21, 23 December 2023 (UTC)