A New York Review Books Original Transcending divisions of creed, challenging social distinctions of all sorts, and celebrating individual unity with the divine, the poetry of Kabir is one of passion and paradox, of mind-bending riddles and exultant riffs.
She is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and the author of many books, most recently The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade, The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was, and The Hindus: An Alternative History... from Oxford University.
Phil. from Harvard University and her D.
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Wendy Doniger [O\'Flaherty] graduated from Radcliffe College and received her Ph.
He is a professor of English at the University of Allahabad and lives in Allahabad and Dehra Dun.
A volume of his essays, Partial Recall: Essays on Literature and Literary History will be published in 2011.
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is the author of four books of poetry, the editor of The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets and Collected Poems in English by Arun Kolatkar, and the translator of The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry.
The Songs of this extraordinary poet, philosopher, and satirist, who believed in a personal god, have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium.
He is said to have been a weaver, and in his resolutely undogmatic and often riddling work he debunks both Hinduism and Islam.
Next to nothing is known of his life, though many legends surround him.
About the Author: Kabir, the North Indian devotional or bhakti poet, was born in Benares (now Varanasi) and lived in the fifteenth century.
These new translations by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, one of India\'s finest contemporary poets, bring out the richness, wit, and power of a literary and spiritual master.
A New York Review Books Original Transcending divisions of creed, challenging social distinctions of all sorts, and celebrating individual unity with the divine, the poetry of Kabir is one of passion and paradox, of mind-bending riddles and exultant riffs
