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So the legends whom you heard a lot about when you were a kid and did not have access to books about them, but read about them later and enjoyed—post those books in this thread:
1.) Alexander the Great and His Time
Agnes Savill
Biography of Alexander the Great.
Alexander the Great and His Time by Agnes Savill | Goodreads
2.) Ha Ha Hu Hu: A Horse-headed God in Trafalgar Square (Fiction - translated to English)
This has 2 stories but I am talking about Vishnu Sharma Learns English:
A Telugu lecturer is visited in a dream by the medieval poet Tikanna (13th-century legend who translated Mahabharatam into Telugu) and the ancient scholar Vishnu Sharma (wrote Panchatantra) with an unusual request: they want him to teach them English! This was a fun read. It's like your heroes visit you in a dream and ask you to teach English to them (because Indra sent them to Earth back from heaven to learn English and be back after learning it from you).
A quote from this for your reference:
3.) Tyagaraja: Life and Lyrics
William J. Jackson
Tyagaraja (1767–1847) is undoubtedly South India's most celebrated musician-saint. For the first time in Tyagaraja scholarship, the saint's life and works have been contextualized within a historical, social, and cultural framework. The book reconstructs the Maratha reign in the Kaveri
delta in a comprehensive manner, and tries to establish links between Tyagaraja's works and the troubled history of this region.
Tyagaraja: Life and Lyrics by William J. Jackson | Goodreads
4.) God on the Hill: Temple Poems from Tirupati
In this book, Rao and Shulman offer translations of 150 of Annamaya's poems. All of them are addressed to the god associated with the famous temple city of Tirupati—Annamaya's home—a deity who is sometimes referred to as "god on the hill" or "lord of the seven hills." Annamaya effectively created and popularized a new genre, the short padam song, which spread throughout the Telugu and Tamil regions and would become an important vehicle for the composition of Carnatic music—the classical music of South India.
God on the Hill: Temple Poems from Tirupati by Annamayya | Goodreads
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Posted Jun 3, 2025, 3:58 AM UTC