Vikram Seth decodes the 'mesmeric hold' of 'The Hanuman Chalisa'

IANS | June 21, 2024 10:43 PM

New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) Acclaimed novelist-poet Vikram Seth got introduced to the poetic cadence and eternal philosophy of 'The Hanuman Chalisa' when he was writing the character of Bhaskar Tandon, the Kapoor family's boy genius in 'A Suitable Boy' who had memorised Tulsidas's adulatory ode to Lord Hanuman at the age of five.