Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists: List I (International Yoga Day) A. 6th Edition B. 7th Edition C. 8th Edition D. 9th Edition List II (Theme) 1. Yoga for well-being 2. Yoga for health – Yoga at home 3. Yoga for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam 4. Yoga for Humanity Code:
- (a)2 4 1 3
- (b)2 1 4 3
- (c)3 1 4 2
- (d)3 4 1 2
Correct — B, 2 1 4 3. The four editions run 2020 to 2023 and each theme is tied to what was happening that year. The 6th edition, in 2020, fell in the first pandemic summer; the mass gathering was abandoned and the observance moved online, so its theme was 'Yoga for health – Yoga at home', matching A with 2. The 7th, in 2021, carried 'Yoga for well-being', giving B with 1. The 8th, in 2022, was held at the Mysuru Palace with the Prime Minister and about fifteen thousand participants under the theme 'Yoga for Humanity', so C goes with 4. The 9th, in 2023, was led from the United Nations Headquarters in New York under 'Yoga for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' — the world is one family — which pairs D with 3. Read the chain A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3 and only option (b) fits.
- (a)2 4 1 3 — Gets the 2020 pairing right but then swaps 2021 and 2022 — it hands 'Yoga for Humanity' to the 7th edition, which was in fact 'Yoga for well-being'.
- (c)3 1 4 2 — Puts 'Yoga for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' on the 6th edition. That theme belongs to 2023, the year India hosted the observance at the United Nations and chaired the G20.
- (d)3 4 1 2 — Reverses the whole sequence, giving the 2023 theme to 2020 and the 2020 theme to 2023.
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 June as the International Day of Yoga by resolution 69/131 in December 2014, and the first observance was held in 2015. The date is the northern summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Each edition carries a theme, and since 2020 those themes have tracked world events closely — a home-bound observance in the pandemic year, a wellness theme in the year after, and in 2023 a Sanskrit phrase that was also India's G20 motto.
This is a chronology question dressed as a matching item, and the safest way in is the pandemic. Yoga at home can only be 2020, which fixes A with 2 and eliminates (c) and (d) at a stroke. The remaining choice is between (a) and (b), and it turns on nothing more than whether 'Yoga for Humanity' came in 2021 or 2022 — it was 2022, the Mysuru Palace year. A candidate who also remembers that 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' was everywhere in 2023, India's G20 presidency year, has the last pair confirmed. One wording note: the United Nations observance in 2021 is usually recorded as 'Yoga for well-being', which the paper prints in that form, while the Indian campaign wording that year appeared in several variants. The pairing is unaffected.
- The United Nations proclaimed 21 June as the International Day of Yoga by resolution 69/131 in December 2014; the first observance was in 2015.
- The 6th edition, in 2020, was held online because of the pandemic under the theme 'Yoga for health – Yoga at home'.
- The 7th edition, in 2021, carried the theme 'Yoga for well-being'.
- The 8th edition, in 2022, had 'Yoga for Humanity' as its theme, with the main event at the Mysuru Palace.
- The 9th edition, in 2023, was themed 'Yoga for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' and was led from United Nations Headquarters in New York.
- Counting editions from 2014 rather than 2015 — the resolution is of 2014 but the first observance is 2015, so the 9th edition is 2023.
- Mixing the United Nations theme with the campaign slogan used in India in the same year.
- Assuming the main event is always in India; the 2023 observance was led from United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Either as a theme-to-year match like this one, or as a single question on the current year's theme and the venue of the main event.
Which one of the following is the theme of the International Day of Yoga 2021?
- (a) Yoga at home and yoga with family
- (b) Yoga for climate action
- (c) Yoga for well-being
- (d) Yoga for peace
Answer(c) Yoga for well-being
One row of this matching set asked on its own. NDA put the 2021 theme up as a four-option question two years earlier, and its answer is exactly the B-with-1 pairing that separates option (a) from option (b) here.
The United Nations proclaimed 21 June as
- (a) International Mother Language Day
- (b) International Widows’ Day
- (c) International Day of Yoga
- (d) International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
Answer(c) International Day of Yoga
The foundation the whole edition-count rests on. Once you know the United Nations fixed 21 June and that the first observance came in 2015, counting forward to the 9th edition in 2023 is arithmetic.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The United Nations General Assembly declared which date as the International Day of Yoga?
- (a)21 March
- (b)21 June
- (c)21 September
- (d)21 December
Answer(b) 21 June — proclaimed by resolution 69/131 in December 2014, with the first observance in 2015.
- practice — not a real PYQ
'Yoga for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' was the theme of the International Day of Yoga in which year?
- (a)2020
- (b)2021
- (c)2022
- (d)2023
Answer(d) 2023 — the 9th edition, led from United Nations Headquarters in New York.