The Boy Who Would Be Sage is a chronicle in poems of the life of Indian mystic, Ramana Maharshi. It spans his birth in Tirichuzi in 1879; his boyhood years; his awakening and subsequent journey to Arunachula; tales of devotees and animals who were drawn to him at the ashram that formed around him; through his death of sarcoma in 1950. Threaded through the book is a selection of archival photographs from Ramana Ashram.