Lending another dimension to the controversy is Dr Aseem Shukla, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota medical school and co-founder and board member of the Hindu American Foundation, who feels strongly about the "theft of yoga" and yoga practitioners' lack of acknowledgment to Hinduism as the core of its existence. 

Shukla, 41, contends that yoga owes a "debt" to Hinduism and laments that the discipline is increasingly being ...