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26 Oct, 2007, 0530 hrs IST,Devdutt Pattanaik, TNN
One day, Drona summoned two of his students, Yudhishtira and Duryodhana. “Spend a day in Hastinapur and find me a really bad man,” he told the always-nice Yudhishtira. Then turning to the ever-angry Duryodhan, he said, “Spend a day in Hastinapur and find me a really good man.” [...]
16 Sep 2007, 0104 hrs IST,Atul Sethi,TNN
(written in response to the Ram-Sethu or Adam's bridge controversy)
Myths, they say, never die. They only sleep. American poet Stanley Kunitz put it aptly, when he said, "Myths lie sleeping, at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have a need for them, since they [...]
First City Magazine, New Delhi, July 2001
“Sex and violence are fundamentals of life. They rotate the cycle of life. Without sex, there is no life. There is violence every time we eat-when a fruit is plucked, a crop is harvested, an animal is killed. The Upanishads states that made up of the eaters and [...]
by Vikram Doctor - Brand Equity, Economic Times[10-16 March 2000]
We know about management gurus and management mantras. But management and mythology? It’s easy to dismiss as yet another of those fads that management folks keep coming out with from time to time. But listen carefully to Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - and managers from companies as [...]
by Vinita Ramchandani the Week[4th Oct 1998]
DEVDUTT Pattanaik is a doctor. But then he could have been a space engineer, an environmentalist or a yoga instructor, illustrator, columnist and medical communicator. That’s not all. He can recite the 300 versions of Ramayana with as much ease as he can rattle off the Mahabharata or the [...]
by Ranjit Hoskote - Sunday Times - Mumbai Edition, Times of India[12th July 1998]
Mumbai’s architectural heritage can turn into an occupational hazard if you happen to be walking down a street with Devdutt Pattanaik. Mr Pattanaik, a man of medicine to all outward appearances, leads a secret life as a mythologist. And, come hell or [...]
Tehelka, Oct 28, 2006
Hitch-hikers, here’s your guide to the Hindu multiverse and all the thirty three million deities. Mythology demystified but not dumbed down. Delves for the sat behind the mithya, and isn’t heavy-handed or maudlin about it; there’s real affection in these retellings.
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Hidden Truth: Making sense of the gods and goddesses of Hindu [...]
