Mahakavi C. Subramania Bharati: A Podcast by his Great-granddaughter
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Mahakavi C. Subramania Bharati: A Podcast by his Great-granddaughter
C. Subramania Bharati (1882-1921), also known to Tamil speakers as Mahakavi Bharathiyar, was an iconic Indian poet and visionary. "Mahakavi" means greatest of poets. Bharati's support for Indian freedom from British rule led to much of his writing being outlawed by the British, and the lasting effec...
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Subramania Bharati's 103rd Anniversary: Mahakavi Bharati as Musician and Composer - with Ghatam Maestro Suresh Vaidyanathan
*This episode has also been published to my new podcast, Woman of Culture.*
September 11th, 2021, marked the death centenary of Indian national...
The Magic of Translation (Part I): The International Booker Prize for a Hindi Novel
The International Booker Prize is a prestigious award given to the author of a novel originally written in a language other than English and translate...
The Siddha and the Superman
Bharati was deeply troubled by the apparent disintegration of moral values that characterized his times, affecting both colonized and colonial societi...
Poet of Womankind
Bharati is well-known as a champion of women's rights, but his impassioned advocacy for women's freedom transcends much of the usual discussion surrou...
Bharati: India's National Bard
This episode continues the discussion of Bharati's biography from another angle - exploring how the poet is seen by Indians from other parts of the co...
Bharati's Life
December 11, 2021 was C. Subramania Bharati's 139th birth anniversary. On this occasion, I was interviewed by Storytrails, an Indian company intereste...
Unknown Warriors
In his short life, Bharati had to live through the first great disaster of the twentieth century: World War I. This episode examines the complex emoti...
"Equal Among the Servants of the Lord"
As India celebrates its festival of lights - Diwali, also known as Deepavali - this episode examines Bharati's views on religion. As he explains in hi...
The Nobel Prize in Literature
The award of the 2021 Nobel prize in literature to Abdulrazak Gurnah, a writer originally from East Africa who writes in English about the ongoing leg...
The Jewel in the Crown
This episode challenges romanticized notions of British rule in India with the eyewitness account offered by C. Subramania Bharati in his extended Eng...
The National Movement
This episode introduces Bharati's writing on the Indian national movement. His perspective as a freedom fighter from India's South is uniquely valuabl...
Women Shall Write the Laws
This is the next in my series of conversations with filmmaker Michael Wood, where we discuss some of poet C. Subramania Bharati's most famous and impo...
The Case for Tamil (and Every Other Language)
In this next episode with world-renowned filmmaker Michael Wood ("The Story of India"), the theme is Bharati's beloved Tamil language, and the poet's...
The Story of Bharati with Michael Wood
This is the first in a series of episodes where world-renowned filmmaker Michael Wood ("The Story of India") and Mira discuss C. Subramania Bharati. T...
Prescient & Powerful: Introducing Bharati
Bharati 100 explores the life and work of C. Subramania Bharati, an iconic Indian writer and visionary of the early twentieth century. It is being lau...