‘Folklore hasn’t been written with such simplicity, economy of words, even humour … Recommended to every kind of reader—uninitiated or expert’—First City
‘Hitch-hikers, here’s your guide to the Hindu multiverse and all the thirty-three million deities. Mythology demystified but not dumbed down. Delves for the sat behind the mithya, and isn’t heavy-handed or maudlin about it; there’s real affection in these retellings’—Tehelka
‘Who doesn’t love a good story? Devdutt Pattanaik knows that it’s a human weakness [and] his Myth=Mithya tells lots of the glorious stories that make Hinduism so endlessly fascinating’—Time Out Mumbai