
Devdutt Pattanaik
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Devdutt Pattanaik
@devduttmyth
Vi-vaad is a toolkit for the ego. Sama-vaad is a toolkit for the soul. Silence is a toolkit for sanity. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Mumbai Katılım Ocak 2010
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Vedas Never Mentioned Satvik Food! Then What's The Myth Behind It?
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Modern religion is an institution that one can convert into or out of. Under colonial rule, Indians were forced to become a religion by answering questions that were never asked before: What is Hinduism? Who founded it? How does one convert to it?
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Across India, folk stories about gods, heroes, and ancestors did not only entertain. They carried arguments about rank, dignity, and who belonged where.
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In Kambaramayanam, Rama lives, feels, and acts as any man would, yet his compassion, restraint, and moral clarity constantly hint at a deeper divinity. Tellingly, Rama himself never declares that he is an incarnation of Vishnu.
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India has always been sandwiched between East Asia and West Asia. From the West, came horses. From the East came gold. India itself was the land of cotton - it had neither metal nor horses.
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मातृकाओं से योगिनियों तक, हिंदू धर्म में ऐसी है शक्ति की परंपरा
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Truth versus good answers for winning in competition.
प्रतियोगिता में जीत के लिए सत्य बनाम अच्छे उत्तर।
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To understand how Hindi evolved, students must look not only at the Mughal world, but also at the older Indo-Aryan roots of north India and the crucial role played by the Deccan.
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The British created the divide between history & mythology. They argued history is truth & mythology is falsehood. But today, we see how history is contested. Those who hate Nehru see history very differently from those who hate Savarkar.
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In the Mahabharata, Bhisma said Shikhandi is a woman because he was born with a female body. Krishna said Shikhandi is a man because Shikhandi saw himself as one. Bhisma did not respect Shikhand’s self-identity. Krishna did.
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If we want to understand what Ram Rajya once meant we must look at images in the temples of Madurai, Chidambaram, Kanchipuram and Gingee, Nayaka paintings which offer a visual theology of governance.
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Ram Rajya to Sanatan Dharma
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When we collapse mythology into history, we do disservice to both. We reduce mythology into a brittle claim that can be easily challenged. And we dilute history into a narrative that serves identity rather than inquiry.
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