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 ...

Even now, if you were to ask readers to name the 20th century’s greatest poem, at least among those written in English, the answer would almost certainly be T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land ...

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.

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.

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, ...

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

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.

The publication of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land 100 years ago in October 1922 was a watershed in modern poetry. James Joyce’s Ulysses, published in February that year, was similarly iconoclastic ...

At Harvard, he dabbled in Sanskrit and Oriental religions, wrote his dissertation on the philosophy of F. H. Bradley. Prufrock, that lament of the aging, was published in his 20s.

T.S Eliot once wrote that the great philosophers of India "make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys". ... which ends with the Sanskrit mantra "Shantih, shantih, shantih".