Acupuncture is a point of friendship
China DailyChildren pay homage at a memorial hall for Dwarkanath Kotnis in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. Acupuncture therapy in India is related to the story of the Indian medical mission that was dispatched to China to provide medical assistance during the Chinese people's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Basu, as a colleague of Dwarkanath Kotnis and a torchbearer of the Indian medical mission, stayed in China from 1938 to 1943, and later worked for 43 years in India until his death in 1986.From 1958 to 1959, Basu stayed in China to learn acupuncture before introducing the needle techniques in India. Basu, who established the Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis Memorial Committee and the Acupuncture Association of India, donated his house and savings to the government of West Bengal state for the purpose of acupuncture development. Inderjeet Singh Dhingra, who is a leading acupuncture practitioner in India's northern state of Punjab, runs a small hospital in the industrial town of Ludhiana, treating people with tiny needles.