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We examine the impact of the current colonial-racist discourse around Hindu Dharma on Indians across the world and prove that this discourse causes psychological effects similar to those caused by racism: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a detachment from our cultural heritage.

Acala

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. without movement, immovable
  2. invalid, obsolete.
  3. in the context of Hindu religious iconography, a permanently established and sanctified image of a deity in a temple or shrine, that is not meant to be ever removed or replaced, i.e., permanent (fem: acalā).

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