The site tukaram.com was launched on Tukaram Jayanti - 17th February, 2002 by eminent scholar Mr.Ram Bapat in presence of editor of Saptahik Sakal Mr.Sada Dumbre.The site is in memory of Tukaram scholar Barrister Babaji Ganesh Paranjape(1889-1953).The site has been designed and developed under guidance of Tukaram Chair, University of Pune.

Dr.Sadanand More and Dilip Chitre were consulted at various stages during the making of the site. Dr.Sadanand More is recipient of Sahitya Akademi award (1998) for his Marathi book "Tukaram Darshan".The book is a work in cultural criticism.It is Tuko-centric rewriting of cultural history of Maharashtra.Poet, film-maker and painter Dilip Chitre is winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1994) for his Marathi book of poems Ekoon Kavita-1 and the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize (1994) for his English translation of the poetry of the 17th century Marathi poet Tukaram.Theirs is a major contribution to the site. Dilip Dhonde was Project Co-ordinator for the site.

www.tukaram.com is a multi lingual website on 17th century poet Tukaram(1609-1650) .

The site is in Marathi, Hindi and English with translations of Tukaram in
Bangla(Rabindranath Tagore),
Hindi (Dr.Anandprakash Dixit and Shriram Shikarkhane),
French (Guy Poitevin),
German (Dilip Chitre and Lothar Lutze),
Russian (Irina Glushkova,Anagha Bhat and Sergei Serebriany),
Spanish (Elsa Cross)
Esperanto (Annirudha Banhatti)
and Nederlands ( Leo van Der Zalm).

It has Sindh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Telugu Desam and Tamil Nadu sections.
The Sindh section has details on the book "Sant Tukaramji Abhangwani" which has interpretation of Tukaram's poetry. The Gujarat section has information on Mahatma Gandhi and Kishorilal Mashruwala's translations of Tukaram. The Karnataka section tells about ''Tukaram Beej'' being celebrated in Bangalore since 1914. The Telugu Desam section informs about Tukaram temple in Mogalpura, Hyderabad while the Tamil Nadu section tells about the influence of Tukaram in that state. ''Sundar te dhyan ubhe vitewari'', Tukaram's famous ''abhang"(poem) which was also a favourite of Bharat Ratna M S Subbulakshmi and a must in her concerts, is sung at the end of Tamil ''bhajans''.

The site is dedicated to Tukaram scholar Late Barrister Babaji Ganesh Paranjape. The Marathi section has articles by Dilip Chitre, Sadanand More and the late B G Paranjape. The Hindi section has Mahatma Gandhi's foreword to the 1945 book Rashtragatha.

VARI - An Indian Pilgrimage is a cinema film of 90 minutes length, with a television version of 60 minutes length.VARI was entirely shot with a hand-held film camera by the cinematographer-director Henning Stegmuller.It was recorded live by Jan Betke.It was scripted and designed by the late Dr. Gunther Sontheimer (1934-1992).Henning Stegmuller saw the pilgrimage in the company of Professor Sontheimer (1987)before shooting it the following year(1988).Thevideo clips link is available on the home page.