Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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The Bahubali saga
The 57-feet-tall statue, built centuries ago, is still Karnataka’s pride…
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End of Enlightenment?
‘A WISE man is calm in fortune and misfortune. He does not separate good times and bad times. He lets go of sukkha, the feeling of joy, and dukkha, the feeling of sorrow.’…
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Videos
A Lecture on the Fruit of the Vedic Tree
At Sangli, for the memorial lecture of late Shrikant Abhyankar…
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Articles
Reverse devotion
The most peculiar form of devotion is called reverse devotion, or devotion of the enemy. This is viparit-bhakti…
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Is samosa Indian, or Vedic?
Many ingredients and dishes came to India from foreign lands. Likewise, many ingredients and dishes went from India to foreign lands…
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Hiss of the PIO Bharat Tyagi
A small group of PIOs, Queen Victoria’s frozen-in-time children, imagine they must save India from Indians…
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Interviews
Similarities between Greek and Hindu mythology are superficial
An interview between Dr Devdutt Pattanaik and Shinie Antony for FirstPost…
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Articles
Has Kalki arrived?
Whether Trump wins or not, his rise has stripped the West of all its moral snobbery, their strategic use of social justice frameworks to put other countries and cultures on the defensive…
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10 best mythological tales from around the world
Equality is not a rational concept, it is a subjective truth, a belief that comes to us from Abrahamic mythology. Likewise the idea of justice comes from Greek mythology…
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Articles
Why bother with icons? (Learn to respect your symbols)
We can blame the government and the education system, but how many parents actually take their children to museums, or temples, and play the game of ‘let us identify this god’…
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The gates of Dwarka
The Krishna in Dwarka has four arms, the upper arms holding the chakra on the left, the gada on the right, and the lower arms holding the shankha on the left and the padma on the right…
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Articles
A Jain Jatayu
Many Jain scholars have retold the Ramayana epic. Often, there are tales on the past lives of many key characters…
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Can we say that Hinduism’s Narasimha is like Hollywood’s Wolverine?
We often seek similarities between Indian and western stories. But we must probe the reason…
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The hermits of Samanar Hills
Devdutt Pattanaik hikes up a hill in Madurai to map its height in 2,500 years of Jain history in Tamil Nadu…
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Books
The Talent Sutra: An Indian Approach to Learning
Derived from Devdutt Pattanaik’s influential bestseller Business Sutra, this book explores concepts like creativity in the workplace, nurturing talent, and the importance of teamwork…
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Books
Olympus: An Indian Retelling of the Greek Myths
In this book, mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik turns his attention to ancient Greek tales and explores a new world of stories. Long have Europeans and Americans retold Indic mythologies. It is time for Indians to reverse the gaze…
