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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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By Swami Harshananda
Nāgavāyu literally means ‘the air or prāṇa that does not move’.
Life and health of the human body are maintained by the pañcaprāṇas or the five vital airs. Nāgavāyu, also called nāga, is an upaprāṇa, a minor prāṇa, considered as an aspect of udāna. It is responsible for bringing about eructation and vomiting.
