If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.