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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.

Annamaya

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. full of food, embodying physical matter.
  2. embodiment of properity, plentitude, health.
  3. in Vedantic Philosophy, the outermost of the five koşas or "sheaths", the sheath of the physical body of flesh, named from the fact that it is nourished by food (anna).

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