#HabbaKhatoon

“The establishment threw Tukārām's life's work into the Indrayani, and it came back — because a community had already learned it by heart; four centuries later a million people still walk 250 kilometres every summer singing it.”

“God needs no priest, no Sanskrit and no renunciation — a ruined grain-seller can argue with him directly, in kitchen Marathi, without leaving his shop or his marriage; and when the orthodox sank his poems in the river, the people fished them out.”