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Tales From the Land of Jagannatha
There are 30 short essays in this book. They were written by renowned mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik over a ten-year period and published in various publications…
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Dharm Aur Samlaingikta/धर्म और समलैंगिकता
हमारे देश में एक संस्था है क्वीयर हिन्दू अलायंस, जो समलैंगिकता और हिन्दू धर्म के क्षेत्रों में काम करती है। इस संस्था के अध्यक्ष अंकित भूपतानी ने धर्म और समलैंगिकता को लेकर देवदत्त पटनायक से सैकड़ों सवाल किए हैं, उन्हीं सवालों के सुलझे हुए स्पष्ट जवाब इस पुस्तक में हैं।इस पुस्तक में एक प्रश्न के…
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The Stories We Tell: Mythology to Make Sense of Modern Lives
In The Stories We Tell: Mythology to Make Sense of Modern Lives, renowned mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik presents seventy-two tales from India’s rich treasure of myths and legends to explain life in the twenty-first century. The stories are arranged into a variety of themes, including ‘Apsara’, a reflection on the portrayal of women in ancient texts;…
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Hope: Wisdom to Survive in a Hopeless World
Have you lost all hope? Does the world feel bleak and unforgiving? The pandemic crisis has seen many of us lose family, friends, colleagues. How can you recover from this devastating loss? You are surrounded by anger and violence everywhere. Bad news hits you – a failing economy, climate change – every day. Do you…
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Marriage: 100 Stories Around India’s Favourite Ritual
Marriage, by mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, brings together stories from Vedic, Puranic, Tamil, and Sanskrit literature, from regional, classical, folk and tribal lore, from oral and textual traditions, across 3000 years of history and 3 million square kilometres of geography, to reveal the diversity and fluidity of Indian customs and beliefs around marriage. ‘Let all the…
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Dharma Artha Kama Moksha: 40 Insights for Happiness
Artha-shastra is about generating food, i.e. wealth, by creating goods and services; Kama-shastra is about indulging our hungers with this food. Dharma-shastra insists we consider the hunger of others, while Moksha-shastra is about outgrowing our hungers, in order to be detached and generous. Together, these four Hindu shastras provide a framework within which human action,…
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Pilgrim Nation: The Making of Bharatvarsh
Before nationalists and patriots, before colonizers and invaders, before emperors and kings, India was woven together by pilgrim paths. Seekers and sages travelled north and south, east and west, across mountains and along rivers, ignoring artificial boundaries, seeking and finding gods. Renowned mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik takes us on an insightful journey to thirty-two holy sites…
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Hindu Trinity: 21 Life-enhancing Secrets Revealed Through Stories and Art
In the living tradition that is Hinduism, divinity manifests as the Goddess, who embodies the world, as Shiva, who seeks to withdraw from it, and Vishnu, who engages with it.This omnibus, comprising the bestselling titles 7 Secrets of Shiva, 7 Secrets of the Goddess, 7 Secrets of Vishnu, explores the art, rituals and stories of…
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Aranyaka: Book of the Forest
In the wilderness of humanity, In the forests of the mind, Who eats whom? Who sees whom? Aranyaka is about the great forests within us, and without. It is about food, feeding and love. Braiding the stories of three spirited rishikas—Katyayani the Large, Maitreyi the Fig and Gargi the Weaver—it explores the fears and hungers…
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Wisdom of the Gods for You and Me: My Gita and My Hanuman Chalisa
Hindu mythology is vast and voluminous. There is so much we don’t know or has not been presented in a simplified way, making sense to contemporary times. This special omnibus edition brings together two bestselling books, My Gita and My Hanuman Chalisa are part of a series where Devdutt does ‘darshan’ of the scriptures, not…
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Yoga Mythology: 64 Asanas and Their Stories
The popular names of many yogic asanas – from Virbhadra-asana and Hanuman-asana to Matsyendra-asana, Kurma-asana and Ananta-asana – are based on characters and personages from Indian mythology. Who were these mythological characters, what were their stories, and how are they connected to yogic postures? Devdutt Pattanaik’s newest book Yoga Mythology (co-written with international yoga practitioner…
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Faith: 40 Insights into Hinduism
Why are Hindus so ritualistic? Why do they worship idols? Were Hindus always casteist? Are Hindus supposed to be vegetarian? Is divorce permitted according to Hinduism? Why is a Hindu prayer different from a Muslim or Christian prayer? Did the arrival of Muslim invaders a thousand years ago destroy Hindu culture? Answering key questions on…
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Ramayana Versus Mahabharata: My Playful Comparison
Ideas in this book are distributed over 56 chapters. In temples ritual, Vishnu is offered 8 different meals daily, different on all seven days of the week–56 dishes in all. May each chapter serve as a mouthwatering offering to the Vishnu within you…
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Shyam: An Illustrated Retelling of the Bhagavata
This book seamlessly weaves the story from Krishna’s birth to his death, or rather from his descent to the butter-smeared world of happy women to his ascent from the blood-soaked world of angry men…
