Devdutt

I was educated to be a medical doctor in Grant Medical College Mumbai.

After passing out my MBBS, I spent 14 years working in the Pharma and Healthcare industries working with companies such as SIRO (Clinical Medicine Executive), GoodhealthNyou.com  (Site in charge) Apollo Hospitals, Sanofi Aventis (as Content Manager, Knowledge Manager and finally Marketing Manager) and finally Ernst & Young as Manager in Business Advisory services.

But my passion has always been mythology and I have been writing and lecturing extensively on relevance of sacred stories, symbols and rituals in modern times. And it is in this capacity that I have joined Future Group as Chief Belief Officer where my role is to help construct the culture of the entire organization.

I regularly write in Economic Times, Times of India, Hindustan Times, First City Magazine and Sunday Midday.

My books have been published by VFS, Haworth, Inner Traditions, Indus Source, Penguin India and EastWest Publications. My books include

Shiva - an introduction (VFS, India)

Vishnu - an introduction (VFS, India)

Devi  - an introduction (VFS, India)

Hanuman - an introduction (VFS, India)

Lakshmi - an introduction (VFS, India)

Goddesses in India - five faces of the eternal feminine (Inner Traditions, USA)

Indian Mythology  - Stories, symbols and rituals from the heart of the subcontinent (Inner Traditions, USA)

Man who was a woman and other queer tales from Hindu lore (Haworth Publications, USA)

Shiva to Shankara - decoding the phallic symbol (Indus Source, India)

Myth=Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology (Penguin, India)

The Pregnant King (Penguin, India) was my first work of fiction.

The Book of Kali (Penguin, India) is based on my talks

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