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Saints and Poets
He spent the Sultan’s tax revenue on a temple, and then wrote the greatest devotional songs in Telugu from the prison it earned him.
Ramadasu's most famous song is a tax collector's complaint.
Paluke bangaramayena, he sings, from a cell in the fortress at Golconda: has your speech turned into gold? Is that why you will not spend a word on me? It is addressed to Rama.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.