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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.

Danḍa

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By Jit Majumdar


  1. stick; staff; pole; stem; sceptre
  2. punishment
  3. punishment personified as the son of Dharma and Kriyā; a son of Ikşvāku; the son of King Vidanda and brother of King Dandadhara of Magadha (M. Bh.); a Cedi warrior who fought for the Pāndavas in the Bharata War; a rākşasa who was the son of Sumāli and Ketumatī (U. Rām.); an attendant of the Sun God; another name for Yama.

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