Pradip Bhattacharya

1947 born Pradip Bhattacharya is from Calcutta, India. He is a member of the Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and is on the editorial board of its Journal of Human Values. Professionally an Indian Administrative Service officer, he has a PhD in Comparative Literature for his research on the Mahabharata, a Post Graduate Diploma with distinction in Public Service Training from Manchester. He is India’s only International HRD Fellow (awarded by Manchester University and the Institute of Training and Development, UK) and an MD in Homeopathy.

Pradip has authored and edited 28 published books on Public Administration, comparative mythology, Mahabharata, Homeopathy, Management and Human Values. His latest books are: “Love Stories from the Mahabharata” and “Puranic Tales for Cynical People” (both from Indialog, New Delhi) and “Pancha Kanya: the five virgins of Indian Epics” (Writers Workshop, Kolkata).

His favorite quote is Vyasa’s,

"I raise my hands and I shout,
but no one listens.
From Dharma come
wealth and pleasure.
Why is Dharma not practiced?
"

Pradip Bhattacharya's Book Reviews are also published at Biblio and The Book Review, The Statesman.

Cinema/Theatre
Chakravyuha – A Play 
Peter Brook's Mahabharata: The Film 
The Mahabharata as Theatre 

Opinion
A New Look at Civilization  
Apropos Corporate Governance 
Back to the Future

    –  Westerners on the West 
    –  The New World  
    –  The First World  
    –  The Western Response  
    –  The World Situation 
    –  The Eastern Scene 
    –  Changing Asian Values 
    –  India Darshan 
    –  Urbanization, Globalization and Consumerism

    –  Possible Solutions 
    –  Bureaucracy in India  
    –  The Counterpoint 
    –  India's Heritage  
Ethics in Administration 
Ethics in Industry 
Shakuntala, Schubert and Sarabhai  

Perspective
Education for Character Building 
Man-Agement: The Sanatana Approach 

Ramblings 
ROBI - Hung, Drawn and Quartered 

Stories  
Agastya's Gateway 
Draupadi's Pride Crushed 
Jabali - Free Thinker Par Excellence 
Love Stories from the Mahabharata  
The Story of Lalita Devi 
The Third Dice Game   

Book Reviews
A Princely Imposter? 
A Veritable Cornucopia  
A Zero-Sum Game:

     Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night  
An Offering of Payasam

And, The Way Up is the Way Down ...  
Epic Threads 
For Whom The Bell Tolls? 
Forest Interludes 
Fresh Retellings of The Mahabharata 
Goddess as Virgin and Great Mother  
Good Old Values 
History and Mythology  
I am Myself Alone 
"I Was Born for Valour, I Was Born to Achieve Glory" 
Interlude-in-Incognito and the Gathering Storm 
Is the Goddess a Feminist? 
Jatakamala  
Kaikeyi -  Understood At Last 
Mythic Resurgence  
Questioning Ramayanas 
Ramayana Review 
Reconciliation, Reversals and Realization 
Rethinking India's Oral & Classical Epics  
Rethinking the Mahabharata 
Revitalizing the State  
Sita's Kitchen: The Relevance of Mythmaking  
Splitting the Difference 
Stiff Upper Lip 
Stri: Women in Epic Mahabharata 
Tales & Teachings of Mahabharata 
The Book of Women from the Mahabharata 
The Complete Sauptika Parva of Vyasa's Mahabharata 
The Doomsday Epic Condensed 
The Great Indian Novel 
The Novel as Epic 
The Quest for an Indian Paradigm of Management

The Salt Has Lost Its Savour! 
The Story's the Thing  
The Transmogrification of Myth  
TKC - Till Khatiya Comes
     - a variation on the Never Say Die motto 
Vidura's Mother, Pritha's First and Duryodhan  
Vyasa's Mahabharata: The Complete Shalya Parva 
Weaving In Skilled Unmindfulness  
Words for Princes  

Literary Shelf
Cinderella of the Ancient World   

Hinduism
Apropos Epic Women: East & West - A Note 
Daksha Yajna and Kali   
Desire : The Root of All Misery    
Desire Under the Kalpataru 
Do They Speak ... These Statues?  
Draupadi the Goddess and Bhisma's Reminiscences 
Enigmas in the Mahabharata 
How Devi Kali became Krishna 
Karma: Electable, Immutable, Inexorable  
Leadership and Managing Power :
    Insights from Mahabharata 
Panchkanya : Women of Substance  
Purana Pravesh  
The Inspiration of Bankimchandra's Anand Math 
The problem of Janani janmabhumishcain Anand Math 
Was Draupadī ever disrobed?   

History
A Gap in Puranic History Bridged 
Cinderella of the Ancient World 
New Light on Ancient India  
Revolutionizing Ancient History:
    The Case of Israel and Christianity  
The Date of the Mahabharata War  
The Mahabharata in Arabic and Persian 
The Unknown Ashoka 

Humor 
Who is the Bara Babu?

Memoirs  
120 Hours in Bangladesh  
All Were Looking Like Demons  

Poetry 
Bharatvarsha 
Bhisma's Bed of Arrows  
Duryodhan at Dvaipayan 

Spirituality 
Everything Happens for a Reason 

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