HR!Day458 - Ethics, Power, and Love for a Changing World: Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma on THE KURAL

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This session will explore the Kural, a masterpiece from South India that informs us about how to live ethically and exercise power with love.

In South India, the Kural is revered as a guide to practicing goodness and good sense in daily life. Yet this masterpiece of world literature, on par with the Tao Te Ching and the poetry of Rumi, has long lacked translations that make its wisdom available in English. Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma speaks with Jim Garrison about his new translation, his twenty-year journey to bring it to life, and the Kural's deep relevance for today. Thomas hopes that you’ll come away from the conversation feeling inspired, reconnected to your own sources of knowing, and reminded of truths that can help all of us navigate times of great change with grace.

Presenter

Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma is an author, translator, teacher, and performer. His translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love, The Kural: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, was recently published by Beacon Press. Other books include The Safety of Edges (poems), Give, Eat, and Live: Poems of Avvaiyar (translated from the Tamil) and Body and Earth (with the artist C.F. John). He speaks and performs widely, teaches for the Cozy Grammar series of online video courses, and has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, 4Culture, Artist Trust, and the U. S. Fulbright Program.