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Interviews

  • Devdutt Pattanaik Reveals The Queer History Hidden In Indian Mythology

    Devdutt Pattanaik Reveals The Queer History Hidden In Indian Mythology

    Fluidity can be accommodated only with love, not anger…

  • Meet the characters who appear in both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana (and find out why)

    Meet the characters who appear in both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana (and find out why)

    From Parashurama and Jambuvan to Shiva and even Sita/Draupadi…

  • Shiv Visvanathan on the importance of being (and thinking like) Devdutt Pattanaik

    Shiv Visvanathan on the importance of being (and thinking like) Devdutt Pattanaik

    ‘Devdutt Pattanaik is an exponent of myths, using them to analyse management practice, deepen storytelling, and obtain a sense of life and living.’…

  • Similarities between Greek and Hindu mythology are superficial

    Similarities between Greek and Hindu mythology are superficial

    An interview between Dr Devdutt Pattanaik and Shinie Antony for FirstPost…

  • Devdutt Pattanaik on how and why you should introduce your kids to mythology

    Devdutt Pattanaik on how and why you should introduce your kids to mythology

    India’s mythology man speaks about the relevance of mythology in today’s world and why you should be telling mythological stories to your kids…

  • Religion is not a sensitive topic

    Religion is not a sensitive topic

    An interview by Kaushani Banerjee…

  • “No society can exist without myth”

    “No society can exist without myth”

    In fact, he believes that “no society can exist without myth as it creates notions of right and wrong, good and bad, heaven and hell, rights and duties”…

  • Devdutt Pattanaik’s business lessons from mythology

    Devdutt Pattanaik’s business lessons from mythology

    Leadership means creating an ecosystem where people feel secure and empowered enough to express uncomfortable views without fear of censure…

  • Bringing Mythology to the Masses

    Bringing Mythology to the Masses

    Tête-à-Tête with Devdutt Pattanaik and Ankita Siddiqui…

  • In An Exclusive Chat with Devdutt Pattanaik

    In An Exclusive Chat with Devdutt Pattanaik

    An account of Mythical India’s interaction with Dr Devdutt Pattanaik…

  • India Can Offer a New Way of Thinking to the World

    India Can Offer a New Way of Thinking to the World

    Kulpreet Yadav interviews Dr Devdutt Pattanaik…

  • Why I Insist On Calling Myself a Mythologist

    Why I Insist On Calling Myself a Mythologist

    Devdutt Pattanaik refuses to accept colonial definitions of the words ‘myth’ and ‘mythology’. For him, mythology is the study of a subjective truth of people that is communicated through stories, symbols and rituals…

  • Interview with Devdutt Pattanaik

    Interview with Devdutt Pattanaik

    Devdutt Pattanaik – on children, Indian myths and mythology, and the importance of retelling the ‘old’…

  • A Conversation with Bestselling Author, Devdutt Pattanaik

    A Conversation with Bestselling Author, Devdutt Pattanaik

    Posted by Hiten Vyas in Interviews for e-Books India…

  • Of myths & reality

    Of myths & reality

    An interview for the Deccan Herald…

  • Left liberals, Hindutva followers do not like fluidity, nature: Devdutt Pattanaik in Twitter-Interview

    Left liberals, Hindutva followers do not like fluidity, nature: Devdutt Pattanaik in Twitter-Interview

    Pattanaik speaks to dna and its readers via a Twitter chat on writing, his work and its relevance in society…

  • The Idea of the Indian City — a conversation with Devdutt Pattanaik

    The Idea of the Indian City — a conversation with Devdutt Pattanaik

    In conversation with Devdutt Pattanaik, and how he interprets the Idea of the Indian City in context of the rapidly urbanising contemporary India of today…

  • 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…