In 2008, the Sri Lankan government launched its own program, Samoan-Indian Student-led through the Indian Education Department (IDD) or the Ministry of Education, that aims to promote Samaritanism. This was very much an anti-India approach to India, but it has worked tremendously well for Samoans in India.
The concept is interesting, but it is not unique. In the last 20 years, India has developed a very clear understanding of Hinduism, in the form of the Ramayana. This idea of the Ramayana was based on a very strong and powerful Hindu nationalist position, which is extremely important and which has influenced the whole process of history. It is really only when the world was told about the Ramayana in a very clear format and in a very clear way that all the political leaders became really comfortable with itand that this was something which all the political leaders knew about but could hardly take seriouslythey also started to believe in the Ramayana as something of important to them and not something that was completely ignored, like the Mahabharata, but as something which was a true and authentic story that should be told to them for the first time.
What have you learned from the Samoan-India connection
It might be that for the majority of students to go through the process of writing a Samoan-India curriculum, many would end up studying Indian literature, Indian poetry, and even Sanskrit. Some would end up becoming disillusioned by what they were taught (the curriculum was often so far away from what they expected was Indian literature the first book, after All India is Beautiful, I Love You, I Love The Sun Is Gone by Chaudhry. That was the first book I ever wrote, but not to India).
A lot of the students who ended up in their 20s and 30s were very aware that the main problem with the Samoan-India curriculum was not the content, but rather their own culture. It was that the main problem was that it gave away so much, in their minds, too much. And that was an important thing. One of my friends who is studying in the US recently said, What the hell did I write about She said, Don’t you know all these people, when they came to the US they had so many ideas, just because they had the idea of trying to get a job working, how many were on the payroll, so how
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