Reading Allama with D.R. Nagaraj

Language: Kannada and English What does it mean to search for the divine at the very limits of language itself? This event centres on the English translation of D.R. Nagaraj’s final and most innovative work: an engagement with the twelfth-century Shaiva mystic and poet, Allama Prabhu. The session opens with an introduction to Allama and his enigmatic vachanas, moves into a reflection on the work of translating into English the nuanced thought of Nagaraj, and arrives at a conversation on what it takes to carry a difficult, vital inheritance across language and time. Nagaraj situates Allam