I recently completed reading this book. I found it very beautiful and more importantly the feelings erupt from us while reading it. The discriptions made in this book are amazing and will definately make you cry. While reading we can actually imagine the entire scene running in front of our eyes. Another important feature is being a non maharshtrian i could read and understand the language, so the language used by the author is very simple. So my request to those people who are non maharashtrians but can read and understand marathi should take marathi version because i feel it will give you the feel more than any other language. If you have been desperate to read about Shivaji and had trouble reading refined Marathi then this might be your best hope. This is not really a biography but more a dramatized presentation of Shivaji's life. I have enjoyed reading this book, mostly because I had wanted to read about him for a long time. If you are well conversant with Marathi then you should read the original "Shrimanyogi" by Ranjit Desai. This book is a translation and doesn't really live up to the original book. The translation was laborious and often I could imagine the original Marathi sentences that the translator was translating. I believe the Dr Katamble should have maintained the spirit of book instead of trying to emulate the sentence structure and Marathi idioms Mr Ranjit Desai used. For e.g. usually in Marathi when visits a temple they tend to say "Deviche darshan gethle" or "Devache darshan gethle". When that is literally translated it means to "view the god". This is a very naive way of expressing it. After all the idioms in Marathi would be quite different from idioms in English. Apart from these occasional issues, the translation is rather well done.After I started reading this book, I came to know about Jadhunath Sarkar's book, "Shivaji and his times." I intend to read it to get a better understanding about some of the instances that were presented very favorably in this book.
What do You think about Shriman Yogi (श्रीमान योगी) (2012)?
One of the best history book. I loved the narration of the author.
—padfoot
great book written by great author of a greatest warrior so far
—mic
