"A defeatist tendency exists in the psyche of modern Indians perhaps unparalleled in any other country today. The main effort appears to be to pull the country down or remake it in a foreign image, as if little Indian and certainly nothing Hindu was worthy of preserving. There is probably no other country in the world where it has become a national pastime among its educated class to denigrate its own culture and history, however great that has been over the many millennia of... its existence. When great archaeological discoveries of India’s past are found, for example, they are not a subject for national pride but are ridiculed as an exaggeration, if not an invention, as if they represent only the imagination of backward chauvinistic elements within the culture. Outside people need not pull Indians down. Indians are already quite busy doing that." - David Frawley (A catholic who became a Hindu. An expert on Yoga and Vedanta. Founder of the American Institute of Vedic Studies.)
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