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In this book, we analyze the psycho-social consequences faced by Indian American children after exposure to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. We demonstrate that there is an intimate connection—an almost exact correspondence—between James Mill’s colonial-racist discourse (Mill was the head of the British East India Company) and the current school textbook discourse. This racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces the same psychological impacts on Indian American children that racism typically causes: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon akin to racelessness, where children dissociate from the traditions and culture of their ancestors.


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Dasani thodi deve oh Manasa

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Dasani thodi deve oh manasa

By

Sage Thyagaraja


Translated by

P.R.Ramachander

Raga Harikambodhi
Thala Aadhi

Pallavi

Dasani thodi deve oh manasa

Anupallavi

Kanikara mudho kani kara midi,
Chirakalamu sukhamanuvimbha vegame

Charanam

Pathithula broche pattathi karini,
Paramartha matha vasishtanu sarini
Dhyuthi nirjitha satha sambhararini
Threena Thyagaraja hruchcharini

English translation

Pallavi

Go and bring my Lord, Oh mind

Anupallavi

For enjoying pleasure for some time,
By looking at me with love and holding my hand,
Go fast and bring my Lord, Oh mind

Charanam

Please bring the Lord
Who is qualified to save sinners,
Who learnt the truth from sage Vasishta,
Who is hundred times prettier than God of love,
And who is traveling in the mind of Thyagaraja

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