Nine Lives by William Dalrymple: A Book Review
Nine Lives by William Dalrymple: A Book Review © mulshankar13. All articles, scripts, poetry, prose, reviews written here are exclusive copyrights of mulshankar13. Any article, poetry, prose, story or reviews may be reused, quoted in full or as an excerpt only with attribution to “Source: mulshankar13”. What’s common between the bards by the river Ajoy in Bengal and the bards by the river Indus? The former congregate at Kenduli near Shantiniketan on the feast of Makar Sankranti while the latter at Shehwan Sarif in southern Pakistan on Urs . And they sing and dance their way to attain union with God. The 4000-line courtly poem Epic of Pabuji sung in Rajasthan has something greatly in common to the epics of Europe or to the epics of the long dead Balkan heroes: all were originally oral poems. Some still preserved in their oral form while others confined to the libraries for academics and literature classes. The yearning of the Lal Peri and the Tibetan monk to see one’s h