'Yoga for One Earth One Health': PM Modi unveils theme for International Yoga Day in ‘Mann ki Baat’
| 2025-03-30
Prime Minister Narendra Modi participates in the International Yoga Day on June 21, 2024. (File photo)
Prime Minister Modi also highlights how festivals across different regions of the country showcase unity in diversity.
Addressing the 120th Episode of the monthly broadcast ‘Mann ki Baat’ on Sunday (March 30, 2025), Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized the importance of fitness in daily life and praised initiatives like the Fit India Carnival and International Yoga Day.
With less than 100 days left for the International Yoga Day, Prime Minister Modi unveiled the theme for this edition - 'Yoga for One Earth One Health'. “We wish to make the whole world healthy through yoga,” he remarked.
“If you have not yet included yoga in your life, do it now… it is not too late yet. The first International Yoga Day was celebrated 10 years ago on the 21st of June, 2015. Now this day has taken the shape of a grand festival of yoga. This is such a priceless gift from India to humanity, which is going to be very useful for future generations,” Prime Minister Modi noted.
He described it as a matter of pride that the curiosity about yoga and traditional medicine was rising, all over the world. “A large number of youths are adopting yoga and Ayurveda as an excellent medium for wellness,” he pointed out.
Unity in Diversity
Prime Minister Modi also used the opportunity to highlight how festivals across different regions of the country showcase unity in diversity.
Reading out New Year messages in different languages, he said, “New Year is starting today and during the next few days in different states of our country. And all these messages are of greetings for New Year and various festivals. That is why people have sent me greetings in different languages”.
He went on to list the festival of Ugadi being celebrated with great fervour in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra. “In our country full of diversity, during the next few days, in different states, 'Rongali Bihu' will be celebrated in Assam, 'Poila Boishakh' in Bengal, 'Navreh' in Kashmir. Similarly, between 13th and 15th April, there will be joyous celebration of festivals in different parts of the country,” Prime Minister Modi stated.
“These festivals may be in different regions, but they show how unity is woven into the diversity of India. We have to keep reinforcing this spirit of unity, on our way ahead,” he pointed out.
With less than 100 days left for the International Yoga Day, Prime Minister Modi unveiled the theme for this edition - 'Yoga for One Earth One Health'. “We wish to make the whole world healthy through yoga,” he remarked.
“If you have not yet included yoga in your life, do it now… it is not too late yet. The first International Yoga Day was celebrated 10 years ago on the 21st of June, 2015. Now this day has taken the shape of a grand festival of yoga. This is such a priceless gift from India to humanity, which is going to be very useful for future generations,” Prime Minister Modi noted.
He described it as a matter of pride that the curiosity about yoga and traditional medicine was rising, all over the world. “A large number of youths are adopting yoga and Ayurveda as an excellent medium for wellness,” he pointed out.
Unity in Diversity
Prime Minister Modi also used the opportunity to highlight how festivals across different regions of the country showcase unity in diversity.
Reading out New Year messages in different languages, he said, “New Year is starting today and during the next few days in different states of our country. And all these messages are of greetings for New Year and various festivals. That is why people have sent me greetings in different languages”.
He went on to list the festival of Ugadi being celebrated with great fervour in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra. “In our country full of diversity, during the next few days, in different states, 'Rongali Bihu' will be celebrated in Assam, 'Poila Boishakh' in Bengal, 'Navreh' in Kashmir. Similarly, between 13th and 15th April, there will be joyous celebration of festivals in different parts of the country,” Prime Minister Modi stated.
“These festivals may be in different regions, but they show how unity is woven into the diversity of India. We have to keep reinforcing this spirit of unity, on our way ahead,” he pointed out.
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