Tuze Roop Chitti Raho
Ga Di Ma…. I had written a tribute to my mother recently and in that I had highlighted the fact how a person of distinction is able to get recognized by a simple generic name that garners adoration, awe and respect all at once. That post was inspired by Smt. Vijaya Mehta who came to be known simply as Bai. Another such name is GaDiMa. This is a towering personality who cannot be described in words. People refer to him as a modern day Valmiki who wrote the Geet Ramayan in Marathi. Besides the Geet Ramayan , Ga Di Madgulkar has penned several beautiful devotional songs in his long career as a poet. Many of these songs are so popular among ordinary folks that they lump them together with traditional abhangas authored by saints from earlier times. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi famously rendered the song Indrayani Kathi and when asked about the source he replied “it’s a traditional song “. Ga Di Ma had to humbly point out to correct Panditji’s oversight and reluctantly say that he had pe...