Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Marathi: 7 Secrets of Vishnu
Translation of 7 Secrets of Vishnu It is significant that the stories of Vishnu rose to prominence after the rise of Buddhism. Prior to that, Hinduism was the religion of the elite-based complex rituals known as yagna and esoteric speculations captured in texts known as the Aranyakas and the Upanishads. These seemed very distant to…
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A Classical Language
Languages are like rivers, transforming and changing as they enter new terrain, mingling and merging like tributaries, and breaking out as branches…
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Marathi: Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharta
Translated version of Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharta In this enthralling retelling of India’s greatest epic, The Mahabharata, originally known as Jaya, Devdutt Pattanaik seamlessly weaves into a single narrative plots from the sanskrit classic as well as its many folk and regional variants, including the Pandavani of Chhattisgarh, Gondhal of Maharashtra, Terukkuttu…
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Marathi: 7 Secrets of Shiva
Translated version of 7 Secrets of Shiva Smeared with ash, draped in animal hide, he sits atop the snow-capped mountain, skull in hand, withdrawn, with dogs for company, destroying the world with his indifference. He is God who the Goddess shall awaken. His name is Shiva. Locked in his stories, symbols and rituals are…
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That Delightful Honeymoon
In the mouths of political celibates, the word ‘honeymoon’ can become vulgar. But the word itself is full of tenderness, anxieties and aspirations of newly weds…
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No Diversity in Babel
Yes, diversity creates conflict and competition but it also allows for the rising of new ideas…
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Beloved of Dushyant
I am no theatre critic but it was interesting to see how the same mythic framework of falling in love, separation, anticipation, rejection and finally reconciliation can be applied to a romantic story between a man and a woman as well as between a man and a man…
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Yagna of Business
Business is business.Give and take..Profit profit profit.No place for emotion.Correct ?…
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Is he fresh ? (Kaula hai ?)
Mercifully, sometimes, a perceived flaw is a blessing in disguise. (A fictional short story)…
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Marathi: 99 Thoughts on Ganesha
Translation of 99 Thoughts on Ganesha In the game of cricket, having scored 99 runs, when a bats-man stands poised on the threshold of that much coveted century, he experiences the moment that is best associated with Ganesha. Fear and uncertainty envelop him; between him and his achievement stand hurdles, both real and imaginary: a…
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Comic Myths
We have to understand that there is a vast difference between yesterday and today..What was yesterday is not today…
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The Constructions of Holy Books
The modern cosmopolitan urban Hindu often overlooks this history and these divisions perhaps because it is so much convenient to ‘unify the diversity’ of Hinduism through one book…
