By Jit Majumdar
- as hard as wood
- an adjective used to connote a superlative degree, usually in a negative context, eg: dāruņa bedanā: extreme/ terrible pain.
Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children is now freely available.
| 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. |