HT Picks; New Reads
Hindustan TimesSays Tuka HT’s pick of interesting reads this week includes a book that captures the wisdom of Marathi saint-poet Tukaram’s hymns, another that looks humorously at little crawling creatures, and a memoir about a sibling’s suicide. The Word is God contains a selection of 51 abhangas from celebrated Bhakti poet Tukaram’s vast oeuvre, each Marathi abhanga followed by two English interpretations — Shanta Gokhale’s and Jerry Pinto’s. Pinto does what Arun Kolatkar and Dilip Chitre had done in their translations of Tukaram — recast the abhangas as independent poems that run parallel to Tukaram’s creations. Together, their translations capture the mystic wisdom and the musicality of Tukaram’s hymns, and open a whole world of meaning for today’s readers.
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