Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Polytheism Enables Mother of Democracy
Published on 4th March, 2023, in Economic Times. Monotheism propagates the idea of one God. …
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Why Do We Sacrifice Humans to a God, Ideology or Nation?
Published on 16th October, 2022, in Times of India. There are two types of gods …
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Did Aryans Migrate Out of India to the West, or to the South?
Published on 16th July, 2022, in Times of India. Three kinds of people love the …
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Activism, Monotheism and Intolerance
Published on 17th October, 2021, in Mid-day. Have you noticed that academicians who say Hinduism …
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Science and yoga
Published on 6th October, 2019, in Mid-day Is yoga scientific? This is a question I …
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Interviews
Exclusive | Verdict rejected value of diversity: Devdutt Pattanaik on Sabarimala
In an exclusive interview to Thestatesman.com, Devdutt Pattanaik speaks on mythology, Sabarimala, Ram temple, Section 377 and many other subjects…
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Is post-truth same as myth?
Western myth, or the dominant worldview that shapes the long history of the West, remains singular and linear…
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Maya and Myth
First City Magazine, New Delhi, July 2001. “Sex and violence are fundamentals of life. They …
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How can a Medical Doctor be a Mythologist?
By turning all knowledge that cannot be measured or proven using scientific principles into falsehood, scientists risk turning into power-brokers…
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The Jealous God of Science
Published on 26th November, 2017, in Bangalore Mirror. Western scholars often state that Indians do …
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India’s New Age gurus believe sexuality may be fluid – but not brutal structures of caste, gender
They have fine-tuned Indian philosophy to pacify middle-class guilt about wealth and power while amplifying guilt over pleasure that could disrupt social norms…
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Does Hinduism have anything to say about mind, perception and cognition?
The word “spirituality”, which is about self-discovery leans towards the former, and the word “religion”, which is about social engineering leans towards the latter…
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Defining Hinduism
WHO IS A HINDU? How a quest to define the faith has resulted in a shift of power away from the common man…
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Everybody has a voice now and so we have stopped listening
Devdutt Pattanaik on his new book, the feminine side of India and the end of metaphor and playfulness in the current debate on religion…
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Explanation from mythology: Why people voted for Modi, Brexit and Trump — and against Arab Spring
Modern society works on the philosophy of equality. These verdicts are a vote for diversity…
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10 best mythological tales from around the world
Equality is not a rational concept, it is a subjective truth, a belief that comes to us from Abrahamic mythology. Likewise the idea of justice comes from Greek mythology…
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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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“No society can exist without myth”
In fact, he believes that “no society can exist without myth as it creates notions of right and wrong, good and bad, heaven and hell, rights and duties