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Tracing the Elements of Queerness in Indian Mythology with reference to the select short stories of Devdutt Pattanaik’s Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don’t Tell You

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Indian Literature comprises several literatures - Sanskrit, Urdu, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, and Malayalam. These literatures flourish today on the literary scene and most of these are distributed on a broadly which are called as “Regional Writings” in the mother tongue. Indian Mythology had a long history with millenniums and many gods and deities. Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik (1970 – till date) is an Indian physician turned mythologist, author, theorist whose works focus largely on the area of myth, religion and mythology. The researcher's work Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don't Tell You is a collection of short stories from various Indian myths across India. Devdutt exposures that the Queer narratives in Indian folklores which describe about the gays and lesbians and hijras of Indian society It accepts Queer behaviour, be it cross dressing or homosexual intercourse, as perfectly natural, it leaves its social acceptance or rejection to culture, which is an artificial dynamic and artificial construct. The short story collection lights the suppressed voices of suppressed personalities in the Grand Narratives of Indian mythology, the analyses of these stories in which individuals of this age are resisted the hegemonic notion of gender and class

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Queer Narrative, Folklore, Hegemonic Notion, Myth.

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"Tracing the Elements of Queerness in Indian Mythology with reference to the select short stories of Devdutt Pattanaik’s Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don’t Tell You", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.154-160, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811B25.pdf

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"Tracing the Elements of Queerness in Indian Mythology with reference to the select short stories of Devdutt Pattanaik’s Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don’t Tell You", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp154-160, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811B25.pdf

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Published Paper ID: JETIR1811B25
Registration ID: 192686
Published In: Volume 5 | Issue 11 | Year November-2018
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Page No: 154-160
Country: a, a, India .
Area: Arts
ISSN Number: 2349-5162
Publisher: IJ Publication


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