Kaavya Phule

Kaavya PhuleThis collection of poems is Savitribai Phules hagiography in verse or you can say especially if you read the original Marathi in song. Many of the poems are written in the form of ovis that are meant to be sung. It is a little known fact that Savitribai was a poet of great substance, a master of her craft. When one considers the other, more celebrated accomplishments of her life her pioneering of education for women and the lower castes and the very

This collection of poems is Savitribai PhuleÕs hagiography in verse or you can say Ð especially if you read the original Marathi Ð in song. Many of the poems are written in the form of ovis that are meant to be sung.

It is a little known fact that Savitribai was a poet of great substance, a master of her craft. When one considers the other, more celebrated accomplishments of her life Ð her pioneering of education for women and the lower castes and the very difficult times of nineteenth century India Ñ her voice is truly astounding.

Here is a woman who went door-to-door convincing Shudras and Dalits to send their daughters to school, a woman who was pelted with stones and cow-dung in doing this duty towards her people, a woman who not only kept her chin up but also her heart open through all of it. Here is, in the truest sense, a saint.