Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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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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Malayalam : The Girl Who Chose
Translation of The Girl Who Chose: A New Way of Narrating the Ramayana…
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VAHANA: Gods and Their Favourite Animals
A read-and-colour children’s book, which talks about the favourite animal companions of various gods and how these companions became their vahanas. The gods needed animals to travel around the world and the animals needed the gods to learn how not to be hungry. This was an amazing idea, thanks to goddess Saraswati. This is…
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Marathi: Shyam
Translated version of Shyam: An Illustrated Retelling of the Bhagavata भागवत म्हणजे कृष्णकथा. कृष्णाच्या काळ्यासावळ्या वर्णामध्ये ज्यांना सौंदर्य, चातुर्य आणि प्रेम दिसतं त्यांच्यासाठी तो श्याम आहे. श्याम प्रेम आणि कर्तव्य यात संतुलन साधणारा कर्तव्यदक्ष प्रेमी आहे. या पुस्तकात देवदत्त पट्टनायकांनी श्रीकृष्णाचं बहुआयामी आणि काहीसं गूढ व अतिशय सुंदर रीतीनं उलगडून दाखवलं आहे. या पुस्तकात…
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Marathi: My Hanuman Chalisa
Translated version of My Hanuman Chalisa Every time we experience negativity in the world and within ourselves, every time we encounter jealousy, rage and frustration, manifesting as violation and violence, we hear, or read, the Hanuman Chalisa. Composed over four hundred years ago by Tulsidas, its simple words in Awadhi, a dialect of Hindi and…
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Marathi: The Pregnant King
Translated version of The Pregnant King महाभारतात युवानाश्वाचा उल्लेख आहे, जो निपुत्रिक आहे आणि त्याच्या पत्नीसाठी, ती गर्भवती व्हावी म्हणून तयार केलेले जादुई औषध अपघाताने तो स्वतःच प्राशन करतो आणि एका पुत्राला जन्म देतो. देवदत्त पट्टनायक यांची ‘गर्भवान राजा’ ही पहिलीच कल्पित कादंबरी या अद्भुत पेचाची कहाणी सांगतानाच; प्रिय मित्राची पत्नी होण्यासाठी आपले पुरुषी…
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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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