A proud Marathi Brahmin poet, Tilak was handed a New Testament by a stranger on a train who dared him to read it through for a year. He did — and by the end Christ had won him. Baptised in 1895, he insisted an Indian pastor perform the rite, and became one of India's finest Christian poets, setting the gospel to hundreds of Marathi hymns.
Lakshmibai Tilak's memoir I Follow After — the English translation remains under copyright and is cited, not reproduced.
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