Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator

South India

  • 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…

  • Mythology & Music: The Rage of Sati

    Mythology & Music: The Rage of Sati

    Anil Srinivasan, Devdutt Pattanaik, B.S Purushothaman Live Convcert at Kalakshethra. In this episode Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik speaks about Black, White and Gray Shades of the Feminine Divine…

  • Passport shame: What’s really at the heart of the California textbook row on Hinduism?

    Passport shame: What’s really at the heart of the California textbook row on Hinduism?

    It is a battle that will not die down, for it reveals a great split in the Indian American community…

  • Tirupati: Playing dice with a god in debt

    Tirupati: Playing dice with a god in debt

    Debt or rina is a key concept in Hinduism… life is about ‘giving’ not about ‘taking’. Giving reduces debt and liberates us. Taking binds us to the world…

  • Worshipping the womb

    Worshipping the womb

    At a time when any public discussion of genitalia evokes shame, goddess Kamakhya celebrates a woman’s fertility and desire…

  • My Gita – Devdutt Pattanaik with Baradwaj Rangan

    My Gita – Devdutt Pattanaik with Baradwaj Rangan

    Dr Pattanaik speaks at the Hindu Lit for Life 2016, South India’s biggest literature festival…

  • The Uses & Abuses of Religion – Devdutt Pattanaik, Laila Tyabji & N Ram

    The Uses & Abuses of Religion – Devdutt Pattanaik, Laila Tyabji & N Ram

    Dr Pattanaik speaks on how religion relates to secularism…

  • The Transformation of Murugan

    The Transformation of Murugan

    In Murugan, Shiva, the distant stoic sage, unites with the vibrant demanding goddess Shakti…

  • India versus Bharat

    India versus Bharat

    ‘divide and rule’ …

  • Balancing the Other

    Balancing the Other

    One to balance the other, always…

  • Coils of the serpent

    Coils of the serpent

    The place of the serpent in Indian lore…

  • Lakshman’s wife goes to sleep

    Lakshman’s wife goes to sleep

    A brother’s devotion; a wife’s obedience and surrender…

  • The Demon son of god

    The Demon son of god

    Demon he may,but son of god,all the same…

  • Kitchen politics

    Kitchen politics

    There is so much that happens around the hearth…

  • Rotis for Ranganatha

    Rotis for Ranganatha

    What matters to the devotee is the faith inspired by the deity,not his origins or religion…

  • Burden of Unity

    Burden of Unity

    A thousand different languages,scripts,food,castes,religions,political views and beliefs and they all unite to make one India…

  • A milkmaid called Radha

    A milkmaid called Radha

    Not all temples of Krishna feature Radha…

  • What women wanted

    What women wanted

    Tales of women who inhabited the spiritual landscape of India are not very common but extremely inspiring…