International Yoga Day: A big health warning is being seen before Yoga Day. The 12th International Yoga Day is being celebrated across the world on Sunday, June 21, 2026. On this occasion, everyone is talking about being healthy, but in the meantime, a very surprising report has come out regarding the lifestyle and health of urban India. India’s famous personalized hair health platform Traya has presented to the world a big picture to the health of the people of the country.
This report is based on data from a diagnostic hair test conducted in March 2026. 9,42,451 Indians from across the country took part in this test, which included 5,62,088 men and 3,80,363 women. In this analysis, along with the health of people’s hair, three major habits like their sleeping patterns, mental stress and stomach diseases have been investigated.
The things that have come out in this survey show that the people of India have lost sleep at night. If we talk about the entire country, then about 29.5% men and 35.4% women are suffering from serious problem of poor sleep (either frequent opening of eyes at night or difficulty in sleeping after going to bed). In statistics, the situation of women is slightly more worrying than that of men.
According to the report, about 22.2% of men’s sleep is interrupted at least once at night, while 26.2% of women also have the same problem. At the same time, 7.3% men and 9.2% women remain troubled due to not being able to sleep for a long time even after lying on the bed. That means the difference in lack of sleep between men and women in the country is about 6 percent.
If we talk about different areas of the country, then geographically people of South India have been found to have the worst sleep. In southern states like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, sleeplessness is most prevalent in both men and women. Here 37.3% men and 39.9% women are suffering from this problem.
South India is the only region of the country where almost 4 out of 10 people are not able to sleep properly. interesting thing Traya Health Report According to , there is only a slight difference of 2.6% between the figures of men and women, which shows that the lack of sleep in South India is not due to any personal reason but due to the environment, environment or working methods there. On the contrary, men from North India (Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab etc.) are the best in this matter, where only 25.6% people have poor sleep.
Sleep problems (Photo.AI)
Traya Surveys conducted in the big cities of the country i.e. metros show that Chennai city of Tamil Nadu is at the top in the entire country in terms of lack of sleep. In Chennai, 42.6% men and 43.6% women keep changing sides throughout the night and here the difference between men and women is only 1%. After this, 36.7% men and 40.5% women of Hyderabad and 33.6% men and 38.3% women of Bengaluru are facing this crisis.
Among the northern cities, Rajasthan’s Jaipur is the most restful city, where only 23.3% of men have poor sleep. The biggest difference has been seen in the country’s capital New Delhi, where women (36.5%) are forced to stay awake more than men (28.0%). The condition of the country’s financial capital Mumbai is similar to that of Delhi, where 40.2% women and 32.5% men are victims of poor sleep.
Amidst this deteriorating lifestyle and sleep crisis, the theme of International Yoga Day this year is ‘Yoga for Healthy Age’. Has been laid. This theme reminds us that through yoga we can remain active, energetic, self-reliant and in good health even as we age. At present, group yoga practices based on Common Yoga Protocol (CYP) are being conducted across the country.
This year’s most important national yoga program is going to be organized on the historic Red Road of Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal. This grand program will be led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself. People are being appealed to make yoga a part of their everyday life to remove stress and lack of sleep from their lives.
