'Harappans were non-violent capitalists, used storytelling to harness resources': Devdutt Pattanaik

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  • Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
  • How is symbolism seen in the Harappan civilisation? Is it divided in the base of mythology, art or the use of symbols as power and resource? A new book ‘Ahimsa: 100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilization', a HarperCollins publication, authored by Devdutt Pattanaik, answers these questions.
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Комментарии • 36

  • @aanakrukavi
    @aanakrukavi День назад +10

    Devdutt time travelled to Harappan times, spoke in their language, invented Pashupati seal, sculptured Harappan bronze lady and came back in 2024, deciphered Harappan language to tell that they were capitalists and not Marxists to the disappointment of Comrade Brinda Karat 😂

    • @thecomment9489
      @thecomment9489 4 часа назад

      Yep. He is one of the pseudo intellectuals and tries to promote his myths as facts.

  • @nrusimha11
    @nrusimha11 День назад +7

    L w ing journalism and L w ing history are similar in methods - the ends justify the story-making. The bravado of truth-certainty in both is staggering - they simply know that they are right. However, satyameva jayate!

  • @subhasishganguly5588
    @subhasishganguly5588 День назад +14

    Narrative peddler, nonsense, no society or civilization of that size can survive like that

  • @nrusimha11
    @nrusimha11 День назад +4

    One wonders if the sweat on Shri Patnaik's brow mirrors the strain of masking the cognitive dissonance. Or may be the ac was not working?

  • @abhiag747
    @abhiag747 День назад +9

    He just makes up things.

  • @batosato
    @batosato День назад +4

    To those who don't know Harappa is in modern day Pakistan in Sindh. A lot of the things Devdutt says is absolutely rubbish with no scientific basis.

  • @himanshutyagi3050
    @himanshutyagi3050 День назад +2

    My boy here wrote a whole book ,despite being a archaeologist, on set of people whose script is not deciphered yet,copying storytelling par from Yuval Noah Harari
    This is awesome

  • @mikedesi5513
    @mikedesi5513 День назад +2

    The harappan we’re fish eating Brahmins this is also a dancing girl for rich Brahmins this girl talks nonsense

  • @xxyz2023
    @xxyz2023 День назад +1

    India, the name was coined during the bronze age, which was derived directly from the name of the western border river, Sindu or as the Persians called, Indu. The people were known as Meluhha. The Sindu river origin is in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar.

  • @abhiag747
    @abhiag747 13 часов назад

    I would guess mythology will be the last thing to be decoded from a civilization as most of it is lost with the people. But this guy is trying totally opposite. It's like decoding Vaishnavism from Rs.1 coin 2000 years from now.

  • @letuscube5096
    @letuscube5096 20 часов назад

    This woman got a chariot in Sanauli but did not find horses to drive it in the pictures displayed. She is trying very hard to somehow get horses for her chariot so that she can give them water from Saraswati. 😂

  • @rajendradangi2585
    @rajendradangi2585 День назад +3

    I am listening to him since long time ( he is of course a good storyteller) but what I feel or observed that he makes things up on the spot and create a story for the crowed and when someone question him he would reply it is my truth it's my story .... N ram of the Hindu asks some question to him and his reply would make you laugh but it of course baffled N Ram...many times I have observed him defending brammins action very clearly and That is how I feel many times!! Take him with pinch of salt.

  • @sharathtn7973
    @sharathtn7973 День назад

    Appreciate the new angle of thinking.

  • @nrusimha11
    @nrusimha11 15 часов назад +1

    "He just makes up things.

    • @yahqappu74
      @yahqappu74 2 часа назад

      No, I think he got the best narrative ever ..

  • @yahqappu74
    @yahqappu74 3 часа назад

    In Tamizh Samana Tantra Aaseevagam tradition a society is categorized into four
    Producers- farmers
    Merchants
    Rulers
    Anthanar- philosopher/saint
    This was maliciously twisted for the Brahminism later as caste hierarchy... But originally it was a good Tamizh Samana ethos where wisdom(Anthanam) alone will lead a society

  • @DanielChe
    @DanielChe 22 часа назад

    Ahimsa Paramo Dharma ✋

  • @jerry-ms1bz
    @jerry-ms1bz День назад +2

    bs

  • @isagnik
    @isagnik День назад +2

    Extremely enriching lecture.

  • @yahqappu74
    @yahqappu74 3 часа назад

    What is Hinduism?
    +++++++++++++++
    I have long pondered on what constitutes this so called religion that is sitting on the head of my Tamizh people and have come up with some conclusions ....
    The priest from the Zoroastrian religion came to india with their Avestan language and fire rituals and later created some slogans in old Sanskrit to form the Vedas which was never written down.
    These priest learnt the principles of the Samana tradition that originated in the southern part of the sub continent namely in the Tamizh tradition and started incorporating it into their already existent vaiteegam rituals and produced the Upanishads and became vegetarians.
    For a solid philosophical footing which they needed in a highly philosophical Tamizh infused land about the 8th century Adi Sankara came up with Advaita logic that distorted the original Buddhist thoughts and produced a dichotomical nonsense which did not last the test of time.
    Later they took up the Tantric Samana Tamizh tradition and put forth the bakti religiosity. This they took also from the Christian tradition and desperately created for the Islamic onslaught. Bakti was based on erotism and appealed to the masses. The high Samana tantric philosophical basis was ruined for the newly conjectured 'Hindu' religion of the wretched puranic tales.
    This is the history of the Priestly class(Brahmins) that still retain their priesthood in the agamic temples that held sway through the bakti movement from the 10th century onwards. The consecutive non-Tamizh rulers firmly rooted the new found 'Hindu' religion with its caste system( the four varnas) that the British gave the final seal to....