Devdutt Pattanaik
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Who Made the Brahmins and the Goddess Vegetarian?
Devdutt Pattanaik places the first fully vegetarian texts in medieval Gujarat, under Jain and Muslim influence. Earlier Indian sources complicate that.
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The Brahmin Civil War
Pattanaik gives us a priesthood in service — Baniya capital commanding, Brahmin ideology obeying. Look closer at the temple queue: the priesthood is in schism. Hindutva as an upper-caste revolt…
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Review: Jaya by Devdutt Pattanaik
Reviews Devdutt Pattanaik’s Jaya, a highly condensed modern retelling of the Mahabharata, introducing the epic’s composite authorship and length and the author’s path from medicine and pharmaceuticals to writing on…
