Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein - Film September 5, 2009

Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein - Film (2008). Journeys with Sacred & Secular Kabir. Film by Shabnam Virmani who will introduce the screening and lead a discussion following with Prahlad Tipanya; and Prushottam Agrawal. In 15th century north India, Kabir spoke his poems in the market place, his spirituality firmly grounded in the public square. 600 years after his time, Kabir is found in both spaces sacred and secular. The film interweaves his deification by the Kabir Panth sect with his secular appropriation by the social activist group Eklavya. The story unfolds through the life of Prahlad Tipanya, a Dalit singer whose participation in both domains, begins to raise difficult questions for him about ritual and organised religion. As part of Festival of Kabir in Film and Song.

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