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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.

Bodhana

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Jit Majumdar


  1. awakening; arousing; invoking to arise
  2. enlightening; inspiring
  3. the ritual awakening of the Goddess Durgā on the 6th day after the new moon day (known as Mahālayā) of the month of Āśvina during the annual Durgā Pujā or Dassera festival.