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Book review: Vikram Seth uses tech to enhance rhythm in Hanuman Chalisa

The short poem, running into just about 100 pages, has been translated with a lot of care and sensitivity keeping in mind what should make the poem more accessible to the readers

Hanuman Chalisa - Translated by Vikram Seth
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The Hanuman Chalisa - Translated by Vikram Seth

A K Bhattacharya Delhi
The Hanuman Chalisa
Translated by Vikram Seth
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
Pages: 104    
Price: Rs 399

Vikram Seth made his debut as a novelist in 1986 with The Golden Gate. It was a novel written in verse composed of 590 stanzas or sonnets that narrated the story of a group of young people living in San Francisco, interpreting life, searching for adventure and trying to understand the meaning of love. In subsequent years, Seth wrote several other novels, the most famous of them being A Suitable Boy, which cemented his place among India’s top fiction writers in English.

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