Linguist-writer Sachin Ketkar contributes to a new book which outlines the aesthetic infused by Eliot’s defining poem into the Marathi literary cosmos TS Eliot’s The Waste Land is imbued with ...

Sanskrit for “peace. ... From the January 1974 issue: The early years of T. S. Eliot. Our inner condition, meanwhile, has not altered. We’re all trailing our lines in the dark water.

[TS Eliot, Christianity and Culture, pp.190–191] ... “Shantih Shantih Shantih” – a Sanskrit assertion which, in other words, means ‘Peace Peace Peace’.

TS Eliot’s India: Many Gods, Many Voices. ... Christian and Indian Sikh traditions, became intrigued at school by Eliot's poem The Waste Land, which ends with the Sanskrit mantra ‘shantih, ...

T.S. Eliot in 1923 and cover of "The Waste Land." Photo by Lady Ottoline Morrell/Wikipedia/National Portrait Gallery ... It has snippets written in Latin, Greek, Italian and Sanskrit.

And when he was growing up, T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) spent summers there for two decades. ... The final line of “The Waste Land” famously repeats the Sanskrit word “shantih” three times.