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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.

Avidyā

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By Jit Majumdar


  1. non-wisdom; non-knowledge
  2. ignorance; unawareness; false-awareness
  3. in philosophy, that state of existence where one is unaware of one’s essential nature, or one’s true identity, and/or one’s true purpose of existence and one’s relationship with the universe.

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