Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Karmic Hisab-Kitab
The Union Budget presented before Parliament inspires DEVDUTT PATTANAIK to look at the bigger picture to examine the balance sheet of our life…
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Recruitment Dilemma
We cannot measure Narayana, what a person is. We can only measure Narayani, what a person has, his experience and qualifications. We hope to figure out the Narayana side during interview process. But that remains highly subjective…
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Sustaining the wave of love
The other’s failings enables the self’s victory. And the self imagines it is because of its strategy. A vacuum sucks the self in, but the self believes it is the force causing the movement…
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Bromances from mythology
Our ancient texts are about all kinds of unions. Modern India could do with some catching up…
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A leader’s gaze
What happens when they see and what happens when they don’t see. What happens to that which they see. And what happens on how they see…
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Are we allowed to forgive Godse?
Forgiving someone, and moving on, does not mean you justify their crime…
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Five lessons India Inc can learn from the Pandavas
Sometimes what is our negative trait is also our positive trait. When we win, our boorishness comes across as determination. When we lose, our kindness comes across as weakness…
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The gradation of abuse, and love
Some things are more mine than others. Some things are dearer than others. And depending on what is mine and how mine they are our response to their action varies…
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Nature shrugs, conflicts stop, temporarily
The world changes, yet remains the same. Technology transforms but nature stays static…
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In maya, the killer and the killed
We can manage the measurable. But what about the non-measurable?…
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From intellectual Gita to sensory Gita
Non-cognitive ways are as valid to evoke the exact same feelings that Gita seeks to evoke cognitively…
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Making Gita a Rashtriya Granth may confuse the world
From being Gandhi’s moral basis for non-violence to capturing essential mystical truths for Aurobindo, the text means different things to different people…
