The invitation to controversial mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik led to a massive outrage. Netizens started sharing screenshots of his vile, abusive, and sexually derogatory tweets against women.
Students at IIT Bombay have staged a protest demanding termination of the professor who invited radical leftist Sudhanva Deshpande as guest lecturer. Meanwhile they have also created a ruckus over a lecture by writer Devdutt Pattanaik at the campus
Sanyal explains that Pattnaik's claim that the battle of ten Kings happened in the Kurukshetra is entirely wrong. It happened on the banks of Parushni, that is Ravi, Western Punjab.
Sharing screenshots of his abusive and sexually derogatory tweets, Netizens urged Union Minister Anurag Thakur to remove Devdutt Pattnaik from the speakers' panel at the Youth Festival.
Activist Anil Biswal has lodged a complaint against controversial writer Devdutt Pattanaik in the Capital Police Station in Odisha's Bhubaneshwar for putting out false and derogatory tweets against Lord Jagannath Temple of Puri.