Devdutt Pattanaik takes a look at the myths of India and of the West, and shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs about...
133 months ago

Post-Vedic temple-based monastic and vegetarian Brahmanism owes a lot to Buddhism and Jainism for its survival.
3 weeks ago

In this TED talk, Indian mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik explains the root of the difference between the east and the west, and what myths...
108 months ago

In an exclusive interview with a leading news channel, mythology expert Devdutt Pattanaik admitted openly that he's gay.
75 months ago

The point is — it feels great to be treated as special in crowded spaces. That is why even myths of heaven and hell have levels.
3 months ago

In China, there is a movement to prove that the Bible is not a Western text, but that ancient Chinese characters contain secrets that prove...
10 months ago

While people differentiate science from science fiction, and history from historical fiction, few can differentiate between mythology and...
14 months ago

Pop-mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, in a Swarajya column , makes some interesting observations. Hindu nationalists deny that the term 'Aryan'...
102 months ago

It is important to widen our horizons, and appreciate how people in the past communicated ideas using gods and goddesses and their...
7 months ago

Storytelling, historical or otherwise, remains a very complex process…We need to question the intention of the author if we wish to avoid...
11 months ago