Devdutt Pattanaik

Some historians have tried to connect all three stories because they share floods, boats, and fish.

Twenty years ago, the phrase ‘Love-Jihad’ entered the Indian public sphere.

India does not have one Krishna, it has many.

There is so much in Manusmriti that could be used to challenge the so-called defenders of Hindu dharma on their own terms.

When Dr BR Ambedkar converted to Buddhism on 14 October 1956 in Nagpur, he was not simply changing his religion.

Rice did not become India’s dominant grain overnight.

Over 90% of the world eats meat.

Dharma claims to be eternal.

Few animals have shaped Hindu imagination as deeply as the bull and the cow.

Have you ever been curious as to why Jews keep Kosher, Muslims keep Halal, or why Hindu and Jain Banias are strictly vegetarian?

When BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham opened in Delhi in 2005, it was hailed as a triumph of Hindu civilisation.

The political treatise Arthashastra, attributed to Chanakya (Kautilya), dated to 300 AD, does not romanticise the role of the temple in ancient India.

Deeply researched and painstakingly put together, this magnum opus by Bharat’s foremost mythologist, Devdutt Pattanaik, explores: how Hindu mythology changed with history; how Indian history changed with mythology; how arguments about Indian culture and H…

Teej means the third day of the lunar fortnightly cycle — Tritiya.

Visakhapatnam probably gets its name from Vishakha, twin of Kartikeya.

In Hindu thought, Vayu, Marut, Vata, and Prana represent different ways in which breeze as well as breath were imagined...

Ancient India really did make important contributions to medicine.

Dharma is being equated with development, with the destruction of forests and rivers.

After meals, a quid of betel leaf wrapped around some areca nut and lime, perfumed with cardamom, clove, nutmeg, mace, and camphor — the five aromatics known collectively as pancha-sugandha — served to aid digestion and sweeten the breath. ...

Varuni, the goddess of wine, churned out of the ocean of milk, joined Indra and transformed Swarga into paradise.

In the Brahminical tradition, the Brahmin stands at the apex of creation, born from the mouth of Prajapati, custodian of the sacred fire by divine right.

Long before the nationalist imagination got to work, two older traditions had already told very different stories about the same king, and neither of them had any use for a hero...

The Quran describes jinn as beings created from a "smokeless flame of fire," while humans were created from clay and angels from light.

This geometric truth was discovered independently by several ancient civilizations, each arriving at the same insight through their own practical needs.

In a world that seems to be hurtling from one crisis to another, many people are talking about the Shambala prophecy.

Marble has never been a traditional material in Hindu sacred architecture.

Ask any Indian schoolchild who invented zero, and the answer will usually be: India did.

‘Sanatan Dharma’ (common noun) as a phrase is very old.

Punjab, watered by the tributaries of the Indus, was the original Vedic land.

Ekalavya’s story is that of a low-born forest boy, rejected by the Brahmin teacher Drona, and who then trains alone before a clay idol, masters archery, and surrenders his thumb when Drona discovers that his own prize student Arjuna has acquired an unwant…