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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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Daya leni prathuku yemi

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Daya leni prathu kemi

By
Sage Thyagaraja

Translated by

P.R.Ramachander

Raga Nayaki
Thala Jambai

Pallavi

Daya leni prathukemi
Dasarathee Rama nee

Anupallavi

Vayasu nooraina ee,
Vasudane lina kani

Charanam

Rajadhi Raja rathi raja satha lavanya,
Pooja japamula vela ponduka nedhuda,
Rajilli lokantharanga marmamu thelipee,
Rajiseyani Thyagaraja sannutha neethu.

English Translation

Pallavi

Hey Son of Dasaratha without your kindness,
What is the use of this life.

Anupallavi

Even though we live hundred years,
What is the use of this life.

Charanam

King of kings who is hundred times,
Prettier than the God of love,
You came before me , when I was doing worship,
And told me about secrets of life of this world,
And consoled me , the Thyagaraja.


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