“The ballad of Tanaji Malusare”, Swarajyamag, June 2, 2023:
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Once upon a benighted age,
Our land lay under a foreign horde.
Hampi had fallen a century before, and,
Even the Rajputs now rarely roared.
A Turkic sultanate ruled the Northern Plains,
Which itched to expand its empire south.
It eyed the Adil Shahis of Bijapur,
Who reigned from Nasik to The Pennar’s mouth….”
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