1. Devdutt Pattanaik is a mythologist and writer from Orissa, India whose parents had migrated to Mumbai before his birth.
20 Facts About Devdutt Pattanaik
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Devdutt Pattanaik writes on mythology, the study of cultural truths revealed through stories, symbols and rituals.
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Devdutt Pattanaik's work focuses largely on the areas of religion, mythology, and management.
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Devdutt Pattanaik is known for his TED talk and Business Sutra as well as The Devdutt Pattanaik Show on Radio Mirchi.
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Devdutt Pattanaik is an Oriya who was born and brought up in Mumbai.
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Devdutt Pattanaik spent his childhood and student life in Chembur, Mumbai.
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Devdutt Pattanaik studied in Our Lady of Perpetual Succour High School in Chembur.
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Devdutt Pattanaik worked in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry for 14 years and spent his spare time writing articles and books on mythology, which eventually became his full-time profession.
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Devdutt Pattanaik was a speaker at the first TED conference in India held in November 2009.
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Devdutt Pattanaik has consulted Star TV network on mythological television series like Mahabharata, Siya Ke Ram and Vighnaharta Sri Ganesha; these serials have challenged conventional views of the narratives and opened up new avenues of interpretation.
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Devdutt Pattanaik has been the story consultant at Indian television network Star TV, where Devon Ke Dev.
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Devdutt Pattanaik opines that "no society can exist without myth as it creates notions of right and wrong, good and bad, heaven and hell, rights and duties".
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In Shiva to Shankara: Giving Form to the Formless, Devdutt Pattanaik explores the layers of meanings embedded in Shiva's linga and the transformation of Shiva, the hermit, into Shankara, the householder by the Goddess.
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Devdutt Pattanaik is wary of the influence of "white saviours" on liberals as well as religious radicals.
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Devdutt Pattanaik has been rather contemptuous of the hyper-nationalism of a section of American Hindus who are clueless about Indian realities.
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Devdutt Pattanaik has been frank about the LGBTQ revolution in India.
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Devdutt Pattanaik has written about the presence, and at several instances, the celebration, of the queer within the Indian mythos.
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In 2014, Devdutt Pattanaik was listed in the top category of bestselling Indian authors.
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Academic Shiv Visvanathan has praised Devdutt Pattanaik by saying that he has made myth-reading "an open, playful, almost domestic game, like Chinese Checkers or Scrabble".
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Devdutt Pattanaik makes it so easy to understand but what is lovely is that he does from a very proud Indian connect.