
Devdutt Pattanaik has emerged as one of India’s most prolific and widely read interpreters of mythology, bridging classical narratives and contemporary concerns across books such as Myth=Mithya, Jaya, Sita, Shikhandi and Other Queer Tales They Don’t Tell You, The Pregnant King, and Business Sutra. This article synthesizes and analyzes the major themes that recur in his oeuvre: (1) myth as a cultural operating system and a technology of meaning; (2) the relational and contextual ethics of dharma; (3) pluralism, perspectivism, and the decentralization of canonical authority; (4) gender fluidity, the queering of myth, and embodied knowledge; (5) hunger, fear, and exchange as drivers of social and economic behavior; (6) leadership, organization, and the Indian management imagination; and (7) the cartography of sacred time and space.
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