How Do People React to a Ngo Website?

regional differences in concept and therapeutic value of yoga. A questionnaire comprising twenty questions with multiple choice responses was specifically constructed for this study and emaited to one member each of the four cyberclubs in New Delhi, Kanpur, Chennai and Bangalore with a request to circulate it'among their club members and acquaintances. Assuring confidentiality, the questionnaire invited responses from those who had personal knowledge or experience regarding yoga and also encouraged the responders to send clarificatory notes, if any, with their responses. All responses were routed through the inner mail boxes of the respective clubs. The first fifty responses received from New Delhi and Kanpur (north India for purposes of this study) were compared with the first fifty responses from Chennai and Bangalore (south India) using t-test. 38 north Indians (76%) belived that Aasan and Pranayam (physical postures and breathing exercises) were the most important components of yoga while 29 south Indians (58%) believed Dhyan and Samadhi (meditation and deep meditation) to be the most important component (p<0.001). 37 north Indians (74%) belived yoga to be more effective in physical illnesses while 31 south Indians (62%) belived it to be more helpful in psychological illness (p<0.001). None of the responders idetified yoga either with the system of Asthangyoga or style of life. While the study brings out regional differences in concept regarding yoga, it should be remembered that the responders were not representative of general population and included only English-knowing, computer literate subscribers of cyber clubs with personal knowledge or experience regarding yoga. While many cultural explanations can be given for these differences, we feel, these may by premature because our study was a transgeographical study which is not same as transcultural study.