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Poetry of India 28/100: M.S. Subbulakshmi’s Meera Bhajans and the Voice of Devotion

Part 28 of The Poetry Pulse’s journey through Indian poetry and song.Mirabai’s devotional poetry has travelled through centuries by way of manuscripts, oral performance and music. Its modern reception is inseparable from singers who brought these songs to new audiences, including M. S. Subbulakshmi. This essay looks at the meeting of poetic voice and musical interpretation, rather than treating a…

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Poetry of India 3/100: Mirabai’s Devotion and the Language of Longing

Part 3 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through India’s poetic heritage.Mirabai, the sixteenth-century poet associated with Rajasthan and the Krishna bhakti tradition, composed songs of intense devotion, longing and spiritual independence. Her poems often speak in the voice of a lover who cannot accept a life without the beloved. In this tradition, Krishna is at once a divine presence and t…

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