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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.

Ekaparņā

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By Jit Majumdar


  1. single leaf
  2. sustaining on a single leaf
  3. Pārvatī, the incarnation of Durgā or Ādyāśakti, as the daughter of Himavāna and Menakā, who used to sustain heself on only a single leaf a day during her penances and austerities for winning Śiva as her husband; the wife of the sage Devala (Hv. Pur.).

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