Bhakti SaintsA sangraha of devotion
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मोको कहाँ ढूँढे बंदे,
मैं तो तेरे पास में।

Where do you seek me, traveller —
I am beside you, always.

Kabir  ·  fifteenth century

The sangraha

three ways to enter

One · The lives

Saints

संत

21 lives, sketched not as hagiography but as ways of being in the world.

All 21 →

Two · The questions

Themes

विषय

The recurring concerns of Bhakti — devotion, refusal, caste, the body, the vernacular tongue.

  • Devotion19
  • Refusal10
  • The vernacular7
  • Caste & dignity6
  • The body3
  • Music & memory1
All 7 themes →

Three · The voices

Verses

वाणी

A growing anthology of bhajans, abhangas, dohas and pasurams — original, transliterated, translated.

  • Hindi14
  • Marathi6
  • Kannada4
  • Tamil3
  • Punjabi1
  • Sanskrit1
All 29 verses →

Bhakti Saints is a slow editorial project on the poets, mystics and reformers who shaped seven centuries of devotional life across the Indian subcontinent. New work appears irregularly, in the rhythm of writing rather than publishing.

The Sangraha