Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Interviews
The mythology of one god is what we call religion
The interpreter of mythology explains the importance of pluralism and diversity…
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The start date of my religion
Every religion believes that it originates from the dawn of time…
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Can I be a Hindu and still an atheist?
Since no one can actually define Hinduism, the simple answer is: yes…
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A Lotus for a Temple
Built in 1986, an architectural marvel, this iconic shrine in Delhi attracts millions of tourists every year…
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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
Is Hinduism A Religion, A Myth Or Something Else?
Words are not ‘objective truths’ as we assume, but ‘subjective truths’, imbued with power and embedded in politics…
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How Indian sages viewed violence (and why western mythology has such different ideas about it)
In Greek myth, violence is part of a movement from chaos to order. But Indian myth lays out that as long as violence exists, it will beget violence…
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Are Indian courts and activists denying the gods their gender and sexuality?
This de-sexing of gods and goddesses makes it difficult to explain the exclusion of women from the presence of celibate gods…
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Leveraging the Aryans
The theories of how the ‘Aryan race’ is leveraged to explain various social phenomena…
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Articles
A ritual cleansing
Notions of reform are often based on ‘assumptions of deformity’, which are dependent on ‘assumptions of normality’…
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Misogyny in Buddhist Lore
The world is conditioned to see the Ramayana and Manu-Smriti as anti-women, but not the Buddhist lore…
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The complete man
There are two Krishnas… The first is historical (a person), the second mythological (an idea)…
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No resting in peace
RIP reveals that even in modern times we want to believe that after death there is something that needs ‘rest’ and ‘peace’. …
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Diversity of all religions
Every successful religion has a force that creates unity and a counterforce that creates diversity…
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Rape in the Bible
How we forget the victim/survivor as we turn her body into the arena of our politics…
