EXPLORING QUEERNESS IN DEVDUTT PATTANAIK’S SHIKHANDI AND OTHER TALES THEY DON’T TELL YOU
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Abstract
Man centric society states that men are better than women, Feminism explains ladies and gents are equivalent, Queerness addresses what comprises male and female.
Queerness is indeed not just modern, Western, or sexual, state mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik. Investigate the tremendous composed and oral customs in Hinduism, some more than 2,000 years old and you will discover stories of Shikhandi, who turned into a man to fulfill her better half Mahadeva, who turned into a lady to convey an aficionado's kid Chudala, who turned into a man to illuminate her husband Samavan, who turned into the spouse of his male companion and few more.
Fun loving and contacting and now and again upsetting these tales when contrasted and stories of the Mesopotamian Gilgamesh, the Greek Ganymede, the scriptural Sodom or the Chinese 'cut sleeve' Emperor uncover the interesting Indian method of understanding queerness.