author, poet, teacher, and performer
It was with both gratitude and a heavy heart that wrote about my dear friend Gustavo Esteva in the wonderful online magazine The Porch: A Slow Conversation about Beautiful and Difficult Things.
You can read the essay here:
You can also listen to conversation here:
THE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural
Beacon Press, Boston
I was delighted to discuss compassion, poetry, the Tirukkural, leadership, voice, silence, and much more with the wonderful Chloë Goodchild on her VOCE Dialogues Podcast.
You can listen to the podcast by way of this link:
Chloë is the founder of The Naked Voice, a pioneering experiential vocal training programme, providing a sound awareness toolkit of conscious core practices, music, audio-books and spoken meditations that empower you to find and to embody your authentic voice.
I was delighted to speak with Shruti Dixit on her podcast for the New Books Network about my new translation of THE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural.
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Shruti Dixit is a PhD Divinity Candidate at CSRP, University of St Andrews, researching the Hindu-Christian Dialogue in Apocalyptic Prophecies.
THE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural was recently reviewed in Kajal Magazine.
You can read the full review on their website:
My thanks to Naheed Patel and Kajal Magazine for the reflections.
Read why I decided to translate the Kural in this excerpt from my preface on Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press.
You can read the essay on the Beacon Broadside website: https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2022/01/how-i-embarked-on-a-literary-translation-of-the-kural-the-classical-tamil-masterpiece.html