Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Interviews
Reviews of Myth = Mithya
Tehelka, Oct 28, 2006. Hitch-hikers, here’s your guide to the Hindu multiverse and all the …
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Articles
Fate versus Free Will, Bollywood Style
Is everything determined by Destiny or by our own choices ?…
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Secret of Tantra
Tantra – a rather unfairly treated ritual form whose layers are very rarely unfolded with an unprejudiced mind…
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From Oedipus To Yayati
We can shut our eyes and close our ears to it but that does not mean it doesn’t exist…
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Myth as History
Most stories,tales,epics are not necessarily backed by solid,verfiable fact…
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Books
Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology
In this groundbreaking book Dr Devdutt Pattanaik, one of India’s most popular mythologists, seeks an answer to these apparent paradoxes and unravels an inherited truth about life and death, nature and culture, perfection and possibility…
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Karmic Debt and Karmic Equity
Sometimes,even the right path may have unforseen consequences.But we still need to take it.After all,the rewards too,are spectacular…
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Books
Shiva to Shankara: Giving Form to the Formless
Explains the phallic symbol of Shiva in detail…
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Interviews
Chief Belief Officer
Have joined Future Group (Big Bazaar et al.) in this exciting and radical new role…
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Articles
Song of the Goat
What is it about a Tragedy that it remains imprinted on our minds far longer than any comedy or happy story does ?…
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The Clothes of Draupadi
The disrobing of Draupadi is horrifying not simply for the terrible act of humiliating a woman in public- it is what it signifies – the collapse of dharma…
