#SaralaDas

“Twelve thousand of his songs survived four centuries sealed on copper plates in a temple vault — the words intact, the melodies lost with the throats that carried them — so that every "Annamayya song" you hear today is his poetry in twentieth-century music, a duet across five hundred years.”

“A song a day to one god, for about eighty years — and inside those songs, sung from the richest temple in India, some of the plainest words ever set down against caste: one Brahman, one and only, in the king and the servant alike.”