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Tukaram is a national poet. |
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- Sir Alexander Grant (1826 - 1884) |
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Tukaram, arguably the
greatest poet in the Marathi
language.Tukaram's genius partly lies in his
ability to |
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Marathi literature is |
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Shakespeare in English or Goethe in German.
He could be called the quintessen- |
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the genius or the language as well
as its characteristic literary
culture.There |
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In memory of
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is no other
Marathi writer who has so deeply and widely
influenced Marathi literary culture since. |
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