"The Sufi trail began in Turkey and continued through Iran, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Along the way it picked up a lot of influence from Hinduism, Buddhism and local traditions and became bigger ...

Bhakti Vaani, a rare curation of Carnatic and Hindustani music, will present prayer and poetry in an unusual format ...

Kabir is the only poet of the Bhakti period of Hindi literature, who continued to scoff at the rhetoric prevailing in society and among people throughout his life. He was an advocate of karma-oriented ...

Lucknow: City gurdwaras celebrated the birth anniversary of Bhakti movement poet Kabir as part of the morning diwans on Sunday. At Gurdwara Naka Hindola, the ‘diwan’ began with ‘Asa ki Vaar’ and ...

Kabir, an important social reformer and poet in the bhakti tradition lived in the 15th century. He spent most of his lifetime in Kashi and Juanpur, the axis around which a new cultural tradition of ...

As a child growing up in a small town that privileged the dogmatic clasp of religion and reeti-rivaaj (customs and rituals) over curiosity, poet-saint Kabir’s couplets offered me a sigh of relief. I ...

When Kabir, the poet-saint, died five centuries ago, he could not have predicted he would be reimagined over and over again, to allay the anxieties of every succeeding generation. To most, of course, ...

The exact details of Kabir's birth are obscured by time, though most scholars estimate it to be around 1398 CE. According to some accounts, he was born to a Brahmin mother but was raised by a Muslim ...

Singing Emptiness: Seagull Books, 166 pages, Rs395; Rs495 for the hardcover. Among the new books that I decided to treat myself to recently is this neat little 166-page book authored by Linda Hess ...