Devdutt Pattanaik Myths
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Devdutt Pattanaik Myths
19h ago
The idea that a person has the power to change society can be seen through a civilisational lens. The focus on a person rather than policy is the hallmark of Indian thought, as valid as Western ideas that privilege institutions and documents.
What does Modi’s resounding success tell us about the human condition, the nature of society, and specifically India?...
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Devdutt Pattanaik Myths
2d ago
For all the violence depicted in the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata, they carried a profoundly human message for the heart. It is told through the two curious often overlooked moments, one in the Ramayana, featuring a golden effigy of Sita, and one in the Mahabharata with a half-golden mongoose...
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Devdutt Pattanaik Myths
3d ago
Nowadays two ideas are being pushed by social media intellectuals. First, that mythology is history. Second, that Indian culture needs to decolonise itself from foreign influence. This makes rishi Agastya, a highly-venerated Vedic sage, a problematic figure in South India...
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Devdutt Pattanaik Myths
3d ago
Holi is indeed celebrated mostly in north India, not south India. No one knows the reason why...
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Devdutt Pattanaik Myths
4d ago
Atharva Veda says, “Desire gives. Desire receives”. Kama, we are told, is what stirs the first being to create the world...
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Devdutt Pattanaik Myths
5d ago
Western leadership models are military in nature. Command and control. It's about tracking tasks and achieving targets. Indian leadership models were about people - reminding them that the purpose of life is not to eat, but to feed. To feed is dharma. He who enables feeding is the Dharmic Leader...
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Devdutt Pattanaik Myths
6d ago
From Ajanta Cave 1 in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, comes the famous mural of a rather delicate-looking Avalokiteshvara Padmapani, a bodhisattva who holds a lotus flower in his hand and tilts his head to the side, as if trying to hear the cries of people in distress...
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Devdutt Pattanaik Myths
6d ago
Harappan seals depict many monsters: unicorns, sphinx, and horned tigers, and these may have been inspired by their trading relations with West Asia...
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Devdutt Pattanaik Myths
6d ago
Imagined history has always served ideologies. Colonial powers have sought to present precolonial states as barbaric and savage to justify their imperial outreach. Muslims insist that a society before conversion to Islam is ignorant (jahila). For Marxists and Cultural Marxists, the world is full of social injustice, which is why a revolution is needed...
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Devdutt Pattanaik Myths
1w ago
Veda is 3,000 years old and is made up of poetry (mantra) and prose (brahmana). Within the prose we find stories (itihasa) about conflicts over resources between humans, between gods and sometimes between humans and gods. ...
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