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If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

~Devdutt Pattanaik

Topics: Alzheimer Animals Being Being Human Death Human Imagination Stop You

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Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

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Topics: Certain Certain Way Culture Every Life Mythology Subjective Truth Way

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In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

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Topics: Become Concept Does Exist Fit Global Great Greek Greek Mythology Hero India Indian Mythology Very Vocabulary Wants

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Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

~Devdutt Pattanaik

Topics: Alive Based Be Real Believe Believes Community Create Every Greek Her His Imagination India Indian Knows Nobody Objectivity Obsessed Our Own Person Real Same Same Story Stories Story Subjectivity Thought Why World

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In India, the eldest has the most responsibility and the crown goes to him. The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could 'most talent' be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

~Devdutt Pattanaik

Topics: Age Could Crown Determined Eldest Go Goes Him How India Indian Most Person Responsibility Settled Society Talent

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I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

~Devdutt Pattanaik

Topics: American Audiences Chinese Cultures European Focus India Like Me Rituals Sacred Stories Symbols Write I Write

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Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

~Devdutt Pattanaik

Topics: Anatomy Art Breaking Clear Complex Could Does Down Exist Figure Helped How Maze Me Medical More Mythology Out Physiology Relevance Rituals Say Society Stories Symbols Systems Taught Them Training Without You

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Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

~Devdutt Pattanaik

Topics: Been Body Knowledge Mythology Vast

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I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

~Devdutt Pattanaik

Topics: Am Been Book Cannot Childhood Colour Communicate Drawings Illustrate Images Like Matter Paint Passion Science Since Text Through Trying Writing I Am

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Author

Born: December 11th, 1970

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