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Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, "The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, "The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural" (Beacon Press, 2022)
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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Feb 8, 2022
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Podcast episode
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The Kural (Beacon Press, 2022), is a new translation of the Tamil classical masterpiece Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, who is an author, poet, performer, and teacher. The interview is an overview of the incomparable translation. Thomas tells us about the book’s inception, the commentary of notes, social conditions of the time Tirukkural was written, multiple ways the book could be read, and how The Kural is inexplicably important in the apocalyptic times we are living in. The interview ends with a wonderful recitation of a verse from The Kural, in both Tamil and English.
Shruti Dixit is a PhD Divinity Candidate at CSRP, University of St Andrews, researching the Hindu-Christian Dialogue in Apocalyptic Prophecies.
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Shruti Dixit is a PhD Divinity Candidate at CSRP, University of St Andrews, researching the Hindu-Christian Dialogue in Apocalyptic Prophecies.
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Released:
Feb 8, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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