Tukaram was a great saint and poet of Maharashtra.
Thus Tukaram also came to be called a shudra.
Only Lord Pandurang can help me… Saint Tukaram had answered this many years ago.
His most famous translation is of the celebrated 17th century Marathi bhakti poet Tukaram.
Prabhat's Sant Tukaram was the first Indian work to win
the Best Film Award at the Venice film festival in 1937.
Once when someone remarked why India doesn't produce too many Nobel Laureates, he
said,“don't forget this is also the land of greats like Sant Gyaneshwar and Tukaram”.
As long as the Sun and the Moon continue to shine,
this work will continue,” says Tukaram Pawar as he chisels away stones at a centuries-old fort in Vasai,
to the north of Mumbai city.
In Maharashtra Namdeo( born in the early fourteenth century) and Tukaram( seventeenth century)
raised Bhakti above the level of a mere popular movement and exercised a deep influence on intellectual circles as well as on the common people.