My life stands in front of me like a grand jester from my father’s elegant court, hidden behind an artfully and royally designed mask. My life has deceived me several times, like a master manipulator.

You would have often heard the term Sati-Savitri used to refer women who can easily be manipulated and oppressed. But, on the contrary, both Sati and Savitri were strong feminists.

Amruta Patil and Devdutt Pattanaik speak with SheThePeople.TV on how forests have a deep connection with women in mythology and why a book set in Vedic times will resonate with modern day readers.

After section 377 was revoked in a landmark judgement by the Supreme Court in 2018, there has been a lot of debate and discussion. I won’t deny that I have been a part of many such discussions. Though I am no subject expert on the matter, it was intriguing to see people’s reactions post the […]

A Tantrik Detective – who is a woman, that’s the story of Anantya, who runs around Delhi fighting crimes and solving mysteries. The stories of Shweta Taneja are based in modern-day Delhi but have a supernatural element to them. Full of action, adventure and the sass of Anantya, one is always at the edge of […]

P Lalitha Kumari aka Volga, the author of the ground-breaking The Liberation of Sita, speaks to Shethepeople.TV about her book and the relevance of mythology in present day.

It was the feminine who emerged first just as the womb symbolises a new creation, a personification of life.  Carrying the universal theme, the archetype of creation and procreation, mythology says our world emerged out of the female essence; the Goddess, the Shakti, the Devi. She has many faces, names, moods and emotions. Each has […]

The popular mythology writer Devdutt Pattanaik — author of works like Myth=Mithya, Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata, Olympus — has written his second book on Sita, in a new form of retelling of her story: Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana. There may have been several retellings of Ramayana in a different light, but Devdutt’s […]

By Kavita Kané The devi or the devil? The winner or the vamp? The good or the bad. The answer, of course, will be as stereotyped as the question itself. It is far easy and presumptive  to bracket characters and people in mythology into stereotypes and to paint them either black or white than see them […]