(The Conversation) — As people the world over are choosing to ditch the handshakes and hugs for fear of contracting the coronavirus, namaste is becoming the perfect pandemic greeting.

Hitendra Wadhwa writes that during the coronavirus pandemic, the namaste greeting’s no-contact benefits are increasingly important – and meaningful.

Georgia School Bans The Greeting : Goats and Soda Georgia parents were uncomfortable with the phrase's seeming religiosity. But to our author who grew up in India, namaste was a way of saying ...

The "te" in namaste means "to you," Deshpande says. So all together, namaste literally means "greetings to you." In the Vedas, namaste mostly occurs as a salutation to a divinity.

The fear of COVID-19 has many people talking about how to protect themselves from possible exposure to the novel coronavirus.

Air kisses. Namaste. The Star Trek-inspired Vulcan salute (above). The Kiwi nod. And no gosh-darned elbows. These are among scores of suggestions by our readers all around the world to replace the ...

India's cultural diversity is evident in the unique greetings used across various states. While 'Namaste' is widely recognized, local variations like 'Namaskaram' in Andhra Pradesh and 'Nomoskar ...