“Names have power,” says acclaimed author, Rick Riordan in The Lightning Thief. Have you ever mispronounced someone’s name? What do you do when someone mispronounces your name? Do you correct them? Ignore it? Get mad and storm away? My name is Suma Subramaniam. Or is it? My name story is a common one in India where I was born. I was given […]
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Finding Mindfulness in the meaning of Namaste by Suma Subramaniam
posted by CBethM
A word like Namaste is a journey of discovery and learning. I’m an immigrant writer who straddles two cultures and sometimes even more, assuming multiple identities and roles at work, home, and outside. I see Namaste often misrepresented, misinterpreted, or misused when people say the word merely out of their personal curiosity or in a didactic, preachy way. Once spoken, the errors in pronunciation and usage […]
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