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GitanjaliGitanjali
A garland of short prose-poems addressed to the divine, by turns ecstatic and intimate, finding the infinite in a passing cloud, a village road, a child's play. The book that brought Indian poetry to the world.
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Luminous, gentle, and quietly mystical, poems that turn devotion into something any reader can feel. A short book to keep by the bed and open at random for years.
Folklore in this book
The Grove · Hindu folkloreThe gods and heroes of the great Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana: blue-skinned Krishna, the monkey-god Hanuman, the dark mother Kali, painted in oil by Raja Ravi Varma and cast in Chola bronze.Krishna · Rama · Hanuman · Ravana and 16 moreEnter the realm →SettingEarly 20th-century Bengal
Bengal at the turn of the twentieth century, where an ancient devotional tradition met a modern, cosmopolitan sensibility, and a poet could speak to God as easily as to a neighbour.