The lecture which got "postponed": Gods of Goa... by Devdutt Patnaik

[Frederick Noronha]

Gods of Goa... by Devdutt Patnaik

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER/TOPIC: Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik writes on mythology which he defines as culturaltruths revealed through stories, symbols and rituals. He lecturesonthe relevance of both Indian and Western myths in modernlife. In the last 25 years, he has authored and illustrated over 50books,including Book of Ram and Dharmic Leadership. Knownforhis TED talk and his TV shows such as Devlok and BusinessSutra,he is a regular columnist for reputed newspapers like Times of Indiaand Dainik Bhaskar. He was trained in medicine, spent 15 years working in the pharmaandhealthcare industry, but over the past decade has been fully immersed in exploringmythologyand sharing its wisdom with the world. [Via the Directorate of Arts & Culture website]

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13/11/22, 02:45:08 am

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[Sajan]

I thought the entire 'DD Kosambi Festival of Ideas 2022' -- and not just this lecture -- was 'postponed' (though the Goa gov website insists it will be held from 10 to 14 Nov)?

There are reports that the BJP leadership got the Department of Art & Culture to cancel (sorry, postpone) the Festival as the roster of speakers was dominated by 'liberals and leftists'. Having gone through the list of speakers (Bhai Mauzo; Prof. Madhavi Menon of Ashoka University; Dr. Devdutt Pattnaik; Dr. Suraj Yengde and Prof. Pranay Lal), I am forced to concede that 'leftists and liberals' is a pretty accurate description; however, I didn't realize it was also an indictment. 

I wonder why the ruling party (and they've been ruling for a while even in Goa) took such a long time to realize that a 'festival of ideas' in the name of DD Kosambi -- one of the foremost Marxist historians of India -- was very likely to involve liberal and leftist ideas. Maybe they mistook him for the other DD Kosambi, his father, the Pali scholar who was presumably more conservative and tradition-bound. 

Perhaps we could have a Festival of Rightist and Illiberal Ideas named after an illustrious Goan intellectual, though I cannot, offhand, name a right-wing Goan intellectual. This is a pity. I did attend one mildly right-wing Lit Fest in Goa earlier this year, and it was a regrettably barren landscape of second and third tier writers of whom Vikram Sampath (Savarkar's biographer) was the only one of note, and Sampath isn't what you might call illiberal. 

I greatly enjoyed Pattnaik's lecture. Thanks, Rico. Pattnaik is a prolific writer on Hindu mythology (though sadly liberal), and a very persuasive speaker. No doubt his comments on how the Mahajans threw out priestesses from Goan temples for pelf and power will be met with howls of outrage from bhakts but, seriously, what did they expect? 

These liberals, I tell you.

Sajan

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[Albertina Almeida]

I was a tad disappointed with Devdutt Patnaik's lecture on Instagram of which Frederick has sent the link on this thread. It felt like in order to keep it simple, he ended up being simplistic and spicing it with a lot of factual errors. For instance, he kept insisting on just the hindu past of Goa pre Portuguese, denying the presence of the islamic past.

Yes, he said the thrust of his talk was on mythology but then his understanding of mythology was constructed around some false details of the past. 

Albertina

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