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Prejudice against Indians in the West in the form of racist attacks has been making news for some time now. But we Indians have our internalised racism too!
We don’t need them for racism. Indians are people that have a racist biased against their own kind.
That’s what thousands of years of invasion and colonization does to the collective psyche of a race. We believe that anything written in English is superior to what we can ever write in Sanskrit/ Hindi or any other Aryan-Dravidian language. This is bullsh*t, but let’s call a spade a spade first.
The bias doesn’t end at the level of language. Anything that is ‘foreign’ is always superior to what is locally grown. Be it cinema, art, music, merchandise, cars… the list is endless. If something is not made in India, it has to be better.
Do you know what the word Yoga means in Sanskrit? It means nothing. Do you know what Yog means? It means union of Yin and Yang energy. Yes, all it needs is an A — A used in ass — to change Yog into Yoga. But Indians use the word Yoga over Yog because that’s what Englishmen do.
I have heard Indians speaking RamA and KrishnA over Ram and Krishna (‘a’ is silent) and I cringe— Every. Single. Time. At least speak your own language properly.
Why do cultures from South Asia put so much emphasis on feminine energies? Or at least they used to, in the good old days.
Yatra naryastu pujayante ramante tatra devataha. (Where feminine is worshipped, gods dance in joy!)
It’s the feminine –Women and Children— of a culture that carries the cultural heritage for posterity. I use capital letters because here I am not talking about the biological gender but the feminine archetypes.
Thanks to the invasions and years of colonization Indian society was systematically brainwashed for centuries to lend its feminine resources to the study of western cultures.
Side Effect: The systematic study of the Indian cultures never took place, bar few minor exceptions, by Indian people. YogA came back to India only after it became a fashion in the USA.
Right now, at present, many Indian film personalities are going ga-ga over LA LA LAND as if it’s a new phenomenon for Indians. It’s not. The use of dance and music is part of the cinematic narration in Indian films. But when it’s done in India, it is banal, when it is done in LA LA LAND, it is sublime.
The inferiority complex is in the minds of Indians.
This is what happens when a culture suffers from intellectual entrapment that India has suffered.
Read books, watch movies, hear pop-culture, do what you have to do to understand this demon. PREJUDICE.
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Kirtida Gautam is a Clinical Psychologist. She has a Diploma of Performing Arts in Dramatics and an MFA in Screenplay Writing from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. She is the author of yet read more...
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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