Devdutt Pattanaik

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An Indian mythologist, speaker, illustrator and author

An Indian mythologist, speaker, illustrator and author

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Stories by the author

• A tale of two minorities: Why India never saw anti-Jainism like Europe's anti-semitism

  
  23 May 2026 12:51 AM IST
• India between empires: A reality check

  
  09 May 2026 12:21 AM IST
• Ram Rajya to Sanatan Dharma: Why Lord Ram was painted green

  
  25 Apr 2026 12:45 AM IST
• Ashoka vs Qin Shi Huang: Two contrasting paths to unity and empire-building

  
  11 Apr 2026 12:14 AM IST
• The invention of Hinduism: How a civilisational ecosystem was flattened into a western religious mould

  
  28 Mar 2026 12:43 AM IST
• Blood pacts of Kutch: When Charan oaths ruled trade and kings

  
  13 Mar 2026 11:33 PM IST
• The great satvic scam: Purity, power and the politics of vegetarian virtue

  
  28 Feb 2026 12:29 AM IST
• Hanuman and the power of initiative and leadership growth

  
  13 Feb 2026 11:34 PM IST
• Why elephants are considered as engines of economic revival in monsoon land

  
  31 Jan 2026 12:49 AM IST
• China's eternal loop: Country's history is not a river of wisdom but a carousel of control

  
  17 Jan 2026 12:16 AM IST
• Double entry of paap & punya: How ancient India shaped the logic of modern bookkeeping

  
  02 Jan 2026 11:24 PM IST
• Forgotten Horses: How two grand histories gallop past power’s real engine

  
  20 Dec 2025 12:12 AM IST
• Comparing Sun Tzu and Kautilya

  
  06 Dec 2025 12:05 AM IST
• Chakra-vriddhi: Why economists call it the eighth wonder and how people feared it as a force that could destroy lives

  
  22 Nov 2025 12:02 AM IST
• Is Zohran Mamdani Muslim, American or Gujarati?

  
  08 Nov 2025 12:25 AM IST
• When billionaires speak of Antichrist

  
  24 Oct 2025 11:38 PM IST
• Dharmic leadership teaches that culture begins not with the many but with the one—the leader who dares to transform

  
  13 Sep 2025 12:35 AM IST
• Reality of imagination

  
  30 Aug 2025 12:03 AM IST
• Dravidian iron for the Aryan horse

  
  16 Aug 2025 12:05 AM IST
• Hindu temple in China reveals trade flourished between the two countries

  
  18 Jul 2025 11:39 PM IST
• Sindoor Goddesses of India: From Harappa to Hinglaj and Charani women

  
  05 Jul 2025 12:40 AM IST
• God as generator, organiser, destroyer

  
  21 Jun 2025 12:49 AM IST
• From sanskritisation to backwardation

  
  06 Jun 2025 11:54 PM IST
• Why India won't tremble and obey: A civilisational contrast with China

  
  24 May 2025 01:12 AM IST
• Horse before petrol

  
  09 May 2025 11:51 PM IST
• ASAP in eternal time: Timelines & appointments depend more on who, not what

  
  26 Apr 2025 12:26 AM IST
• Akbar the Jogi

  
  11 Apr 2025 11:46 PM IST
• The merchants of Bharat: A forgotten legacy of trade and enterprise

  
  29 Mar 2025 12:36 AM IST
• False detachment: When gurus cling to opinions

  
  14 Mar 2025 11:16 PM IST
• Buddhism as prosperity gospel

  
  01 Mar 2025 12:36 AM IST
• How a wedding ceremony is not an indicator of the quality of marital relationship

  
  15 Feb 2025 12:27 AM IST
• Work-life balance: Those who worked never enjoyed what they created. Now, they want their kids to do the same

  
  31 Jan 2025 11:39 PM IST
• The gratitude trick: Gratitude is a clever trick marketed to avoid taking responsibility & being accountable for one’s actions

  
  17 Jan 2025 11:50 PM IST
• A starry network of Arabian trade

  
  03 Jan 2025 11:25 PM IST
• The rational attack on science

  
  20 Dec 2024 11:49 PM IST
• View: Is sustainability the new immortality?

  
  06 Dec 2024 11:49 PM IST
• View: Indians need to market the Yagna model as Japan markets Ikigai

  
  22 Nov 2024 11:23 PM IST
• View: How debates are increasingly becoming a duel

  
  09 Nov 2024 12:23 AM IST
• Tricking ourselves into immortality

  
  25 Oct 2024 11:33 PM IST
• That golden closet: Everyone believes you must be happy, wise and nice

  
  12 Oct 2024 12:23 AM IST
• View: No safe space for gen Z

  
  27 Sep 2024 11:17 PM IST
• View: Nothing is permanent. Acceptance of diversity and change is the need of the hour

  
  13 Sep 2024 11:36 PM IST
• Overestimating science and rationality

  
  30 Aug 2024 11:34 PM IST
• Our unique culture: India's belief in rebirth vs. the one-life philosophy of East and West

  
  16 Aug 2024 11:19 PM IST
• When inclusion becomes intrusion

  
  03 Aug 2024 12:26 AM IST
• Being cultured in Japan

  
  19 Jul 2024 11:40 PM IST
• View: Gita is all about family, property and inheritance

  
  06 Jul 2024 01:16 AM IST
• Artificial Intelligent slaves

  
  6 mins read22 Jun 2024