“Kabir is a portal, not an endpoint. He opens the door to an entire anti-caste Bhakti movement. Through him, I found other poets—Chokhamela, Gorakhnath, Namdev—who sang from the ...

Kabir was a brilliant poet who was the culmination ... Unlike most spheres of life, women poets had a distinct advantage in the Bhakti movement. They could imagine God as their lover or husband ...

It was a social movement of great consequence. It emerged as a challenge to the established ... I tend to think of him as the last of the Bhakti saints. The weaver, Kabir, and the spinner, Gandhi, ...