Devdutt

Have joined Future Group (Big Bazaar et al.) in this exciting and radical new role….

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 First City, New Delhi, December 2003
It all began in Eden. Food restrictions, that is. God said, “You may eat of all trees expect that one.” Eve disobeyed. So did Adam. And since then we have been inflicted with cultures and traditions that judge us by what we eat, and what don’t eat. So we have [...]

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First Published in First City, New Delhi, June 2006 
 
The story of the Talking Head is not found in Peter Brooke’s retelling of the Mahabharata. It is not even found in Vyasa’s original. Yet is a very popular folklore. Stories of the Talking Head can be found as far afield as Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu [...]

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 First published in First City magazine, New Delhi, July 2006
What does Tragedy mean? Goat’s song, said the ancient Greeks. 
Long ago, the Greek god of nature, wine, creativity, intuition and imagination, was honored through a choral lyric called the dithyramb. These drunken ecstatic performances were said to have been created by the satyrs, half-goat beings [...]

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First published in First City, New Delhi, Mythos in April 2006

I have often been asked if the war at Kurukshetra actually took place a few thousand years ago. History is real. Is the Mahabharata a document of facts? Historical? Real? I say: no. No, it is not real. It is not historical.
 
To call Mahabharata [...]

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