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Devdutt Pattanaik and Jerry Johnson
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Podcast: Isn't all currency just pieces of paper?
Money has as much value as the giver and receiver agree to confer on it.
Devdutt Pattanaik and Jerry Johnson
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Podcast: Is liberty primarily a western notion?
Indian philosophy has been seeped with liberalism because of the metaphysics of polytheism that has been present in the subcontinent for millennia.
Devdutt Pattanaik and Jerry Johnson
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Podcast: Why India should not think in terms of equality or justice
Both are western concepts, imposing one overarching structure, while the Indian thought has always celebrated diversity, says Devdutt Pattanaik.
Devdutt Pattanaik and Jerry Johnson
Trending
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Seven Kashmiri students arrested after row over celebrating India’s World Cup loss
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How Uttar Pradesh’s halal ban has plunged the processed food industry into chaos
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Stolen fingerprints, empty bank accounts: How customers are paying for gaps in Aadhaar
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International Film Festival of India refuses to carry anti-caste poem by former BJP MLA in its daily
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How Jeo Baby’s risky ‘Kaathal’ fell into place: ‘Once Mammootty agreed, everything became easy’
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The Myth and Culture Podcast: Can you criticise India and still be a patriot?
Devdutt Pattanaik and Jerry Johnson trace the the birth of nationalism.
Devdutt Pattanaik and Jerry Johnson
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Podcast: Why Bollywood lead actors are not cast in the same mould as heroes elsewhere
The classic concept of the hero going on a journey and being transformed is missing in our films.
Devdutt Pattanaik and Jerry Johnson
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Podcast: Can we Indians live without anger?
Is the path to social justice through rage? And can we even achieve it?
Devdutt Pattanaik and Jerry Johnson
Video
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IFFI Goa: Michael Douglas tries the ‘Naatu Naatu’ hookstep, delivers Amitabh Bachchan’s dialogue
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Caught on camera: Panic after passenger jumps out of emergency exit of plane at US airport
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Watch: Rescuers celebrate after an infant is pulled out alive from the rubble of her home in Gaza
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Watch: This performing duo danced like puppets at an engagement party
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Filmfare OTT Awards: Actor Rajshri Deshpande dedicates her win to Gaza victims, Indian farmers
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Podcast: What we lose when we lose the feminine instinct
When did aggression become the global default mode and when did compassion become deglamourised?
Devdutt Pattanaik and Jerry Johnson
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Podcast: Is democracy about equality or authority?
Do societies really believe in equality?
Devdutt Pattanaik and Jerry Johnson
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Podcast: Can freedom of speech and political correctness go hand-in-hand?
At a time when noisy debates make for prime time TV and people jostle between offending and being offended, we look at how India lost its capacity for dialogue.
Devdutt Pattanaik and Jerry Johnson
The Reel
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How Jeo Baby’s risky ‘Kaathal’ fell into place: ‘Once Mammootty agreed, everything became easy’
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Watch: Manoj Bajpayee stars in survival drama ‘Joram’
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Start the week with a film: Darbhanga blues in ‘Pokhar Ke Dunu Paar’
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Eye Spy: What doing the ‘dunki’ means – and where we first heard the term
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In music-themed ‘Chamak’, looking for the ‘spirit of Punjab’ beyond its stereotypes