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Another of these terminological terrorism is about medicine /yoga/education etc. It is assumed that Allopathy is the only acceptable form of medication and so other systems like Ayurveda are called alternate medicines and we swallow the idea hook line and sinker and repeat the same ad-nauseum. We do not argue that our medical tradition is the main stream and others are alternate systems. Yoga is considered as alternate form of therapy to keep ourselves fit. The tragic part is that we Indians have also internalized this terminological terrorism and use it without thinking about the implications. It is like the newspaper reports mentioning that the bird hits the plane when actually it is the plane which hits the bird since the sky is the original and natural habitat of the birds. The family is a burden in the Western system today and Children are encumbrances or constraints. Our mainstream media also uses this terminology without thinking about the implications. We are concerned since many times words repeatedly used begin to represent ideas and we tend to accept it without questioning. It is always the West which has imposed words on us. We need to have a commission to protect us from the terminological terrorism or a conscious war against it by the younger generation. _____________________