Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator

2014

  • So what if Ganesha had plastic surgery?

    So what if Ganesha had plastic surgery?

    This is not a page out of mythological fiction novel. This is what some people believe happened in India’s past, long ago…

  • How to use a consultant

    How to use a consultant

    In modern society, consultants play a key role in corporations. Reasons vary…

  • An Interview with Flipkart

    An Interview with Flipkart

    India’s best-known writer on mythology explains the relationship between his latest book and feminism, and questions a Western view of Hindu mythology as chaos…

  • Putting Focus in Perspective

    Putting Focus in Perspective

    A focused man does not let his mind waver with thought. A man of perspective is fully aware of the consequence of all his action. The former can make one a thoughtless actor. The latter can make one a paralyzed thinker…

  • Celibacy is Unnatural

    Celibacy is Unnatural

    No animal and plant is known to be celibate…

  • Leadership Lessons from Mythology

    Leadership Lessons from Mythology

    Devdutt Pattanaik speaks with TOSB on Leadership Lessons from Mythology…

  • Interview for The Asian Age

    Interview for The Asian Age

    ‘No one can escape mythology’ says Dr Devdutt Pattanaik…

  • The Right to be a Philistine

    The Right to be a Philistine

    It’s a pattern that is so repetitive that you realize it has become a trap – for both those who mock and those who celebrate philistinism…

  • The Regression of Rationality

    The Regression of Rationality

    Rationality cannot see itself being called a “belief”…

  • On Bhagavata

    On Bhagavata

    Since there are infinite levels of wisdom, there are infinite ways of seeing the same thing…

  • Thou shalt include the Queer

    Thou shalt include the Queer

    So the Pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has opened the conversation on being more accepting and inclusive of gay people and gay marriages. Will the Indian Right Wing groups follow?…

  • Discovery may actually be Re-discovery

    Discovery may actually be Re-discovery

    Those who believe in discovery lean towards the linear mindset. Those who believe in re-discovery lean towards the cyclical mindset…

  • The Unpredictable Animal

    The Unpredictable Animal

    Relationships are never predictable. And this has been the bane of the corporate world…

  • A brief history of Vedic thought

    A brief history of Vedic thought

    When we try and study Vedic thought, we realize that we have to do a kind of mental archaeology, digging through layers of literature and ideas…

  • Lecture in the Project Management National Conference

    Lecture in the Project Management National Conference

    2010 | Project Management National Conference | Devdutt Patanaik | PMI India…

  • Karma is the new swastika

    Karma is the new swastika

    The West always decides what words should mean in the global arena…

  • New White Man’s Burden

    New White Man’s Burden

    It demands a better understanding of cultural history…

  • Mumbai Local with Devdutt Pattanaik: Myth- Our Subjective Truth

    Mumbai Local with Devdutt Pattanaik: Myth- Our Subjective Truth

    Junoon’s Mumbai Local with Devdutt Pattanaik at MCubed Library, Mumbai…