Kabir may have lived and died in the 15th century, but his 600-year-old footprint is still visible today. The transcendental poet of north India has enjoyed generations of Hindu, Muslim, secularist, ...

Kabir was a 15th/16th century devotional poet and social critic from northern India. The songs of Kabir are known and passionately performed far and wide in India today. Beloved for his rough rhetoric ...

Beer gets countless beer fests, and the Renaissance gets Renaissance festivals. Now, a 15th-century Indian weaver and poet named Kabir gets one, too, this weekend, when the UI hosts its first Kabir ...

, who translated the poetry of 16th century saint poet Mirabai into Urdu, has now achieved another great feat. He has translated 100 hymns of saint poet Kabir into Urdu. Tired of too many ads?go ad ...

Humans have always had a remarkable diversity of religious experiences. Across time and cultures, spiritual practices – whether animistic, mystical, ritualistic, or ascetic – owe much to a common ...

Kabir’s poems abound with signals to the poora (whole), the ek (one), the saabut (unfragmented), the akhandit (undivided), the sakal (complete). Listening to him, we begin to recognise the crisis of ...

Anand’s first brush with Kabir was in school, with a doha that we’ve all heard as children “kaal kare so aaj kar aaj kare so ab/pal mein pralay hoegee bahuri karegaa kab”. He promptly drafted a parody ...

The Notbook of Kabir is an unusual book. It eschews producing a standardised translation of Kabir’s poetry. It does not concern itself with the textual authenticity or definitiveness of Kabir’s songs.

The third edition of Mahindra Kabira Festival, to be held between 16 -18th November, in Varanasi, will once again celebrate the spirit of 15th-century mystic poet Kabir in a rich two-day programme of ...

It is not often that you find the words of a man, who was not a religious leader, survive beyond his time. To thrive and evolve for five centuries must have taken some brilliance from the mystic poet ...

On BILL MOYERS JOURNAL poet Robert Bly talked about his recent focus on Islamic poets, including Rumi, Hafez and 15th century Indian spiritual poet Kabir. Bly states: "Rumi and Hafez have been the ...