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Remembering Kabir amidst election cacophony

April 30, 2014 ~ Bhaswati Ghosh

My essay on Kabir, Varanasi’s weaver-saint, in DNA.

A Hindi translation of the essay appears in Dainik Bhaskar’s edit page.

An earlier blog post on Kabir.

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