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Author: Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher: Penguin India and Zubaan Books
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9789383074846
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Devdutt Pattanaik’s latest book, Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don’t Tell You is a collection of 30 stories about gender and sexual identity – Shikhandi, who was born a woman but raised as a man, Krishna, who became a woman for one day to become wife to a doomed man, Chudala who became a man so that her husband would accept her as a teacher, and more.