The voluminous biography of Sir Edwin Arnold’s 5,300-line epic poem, “The Light of Asia” (1879), by the former Union minister, Jairam Ramesh, is significant in the present-day context for multiple ...

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Sir Edwin Arnold’s epic poem, The Light of Asia, written in blank verse, was first published in London in July 1879. On its release, The Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined the Buddha, it immediately ...

This biography is of an epic poem written in blank verse and first published in London in July 1879. On its release, it immediately took England by storm, and soon thereafter America and Europe too ...

In this episode, we are joined by Jairam Ramesh to discuss his new book, The Light of Asia: The Poem That Defined the Buddha. Ramesh, author, Member of Parliament, former Union Minister, and Congress ...

For the twenty-two-year-old Anagarika Dharmapala, his encounter with the fifty-four-year-old Sir Edwin Arnold proved to be a pivotal moment in his life as a Buddhist revivalist and international ...

I remember, in my undergrad years as a student of English Literature, our BA Honours curriculum — which, by the way, had not been updated for decades and counted T.S. Eliot as the most modern of ...

Budusiritha Lowata Genagiya Maha Kavyaya; Asiyawe Alokaya, the Sinhala translation by Niluka Kadurugamuwa of renowned Indian author Jairam Ramesh’s book “The Light of Asia; the poem that defined the ...