Devdutt Pattanaik
Autor von Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata
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- 1970-12-11
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- male
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- India
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- Mumbai, India
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- Mumbai University (MBBS)
Mumbai University (Postgraduate Diploma Comparative Mythology ) - Berufe
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This book is a collection of short stories from Hindu mythology. It shows how fluid is gender and how it lies in a spectrum instead of being strictly defined like other myths.
I have always been fascinated by the birth of Aiyappan (Hari-hara sudhan), born between Vishnu, who temporarily turned into Mohini and Shiva. So I enjoyed all the 30 such short stories in this book. A king, becoming pregnant, and bizarrely delivering a child. A cursed person, turning male in the waxing moon period and female in the waning moon period. A bromance story.
I found the footnotes in every story fascinating and making to dig deep into every one of them. Highly recommend it.… (mehr)