![]() In her response to ‘ Who is Kabir, and where should we look to find him? ’ Prof. In her talk ‘ Shabd Ki Dor: The Thread of the Word ,’ Shabnam Virmani asks: What possibilities are held in the experience of a Kabir ‘poem’ as a ‘song’? Exploring questions of authenticity, orality, meaning and experience in the vibrant satsang traditions of Kabir and other mystics, Shabnam will share poems, sing snatches of some songs and offer some reflections based on her research and travels in the villages of Malwa, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Pakistan. Hawley works with poems that are attested in the 17th century or earlier. How does his Ram relate to his loom, and if he is a Vaishnava, what kind? Prof. Hawley explores a few poems in which Kabir works outward from his life as a weaver. In his talk titled ‘ Kabir’s Ram, and his Loom ’, Prof. ![]() John Stratton Hawley has pointed out, the early anthologies and biographies show that his greatness was perceived differently by different people. ![]()
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