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Devdutt Pattanaik

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Vi-vaad is a toolkit for the ego. Sama-vaad is a toolkit for the soul. Silence is a toolkit for sanity. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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History and mythology impact

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By Devdutt Pattanaik
| The Telegraph (India) Verified
We need to teach ourselves, more than our children, how to live in a world of multiple tales. All tales we believe to be true are just convenient ideas that make us feel safe, even powerful Devdutt Pattanaik Published 07.07.26, 08:50 AM Representational image. Sourced by the Telegraph There is no story out there which says Krishna did not eat eggs. Or that he was against eating eggs. But many in India believe that Krishna hated eggs and will cast into hell all those who serve eggs to children.
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From Gulamgiri to The Immortals of Meluha

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By Devdutt Pattanaik
| MSN India Verified
Jyotiba Phule did in the 19th century what Amish Tripathi did in the 21st century. Both wrote mytho-fictions, but for very different reasons. Phule used his tale to expose power. Tripathi used his tale to restore confidence in power. Jyotirao Govindrao Phule was a Mali, from a marginalised gardening and cultivating community classified as Shudra under the varna system.
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Did Indra eat buffaloes?

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By Devdutt Pattanaik
| MiD DAY Verified
Such manipulative arguments have also been used to misinterpret Vedas by people claiming to be Sanskrit experts. Illustration/Devdutt Pattanaik We live in times, where people want to ban goat sacrifice during the Muslim observance of Bakra Eid, on grounds of compassion. This overt attack on Islamic rituals is also a covert attack on subaltern Hindu practices — where goddesses are offered fish and meat.
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