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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.

Dūrvāsā

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By Jit Majumdar


  1. badly clad; poorly or distastefully clothed
  2. a famous asetic appearing in many of the purāņa texts, as well as in the epic literature, who was the son of Atri and Anasūyā, and who is ill-reputed as being of an extremely short-tempered, aggressive, rude, unpredictable; impateient and intolerant, who was extremely hard to please, of a rather sadistic and cruel naturein his dealings with ordinary innocent people, and who had the tendency to put a curse somebody at the slightest pretext, however minor the genuine or perceived offence might be.

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