About The Event
INT Aditya Birla Performing Arts Academy brings to you “Anjuman, A Literary Dialogue – Bhakti Poetry."
Bhakti poetry is a powerful body of devotional verse that emerged in India around the 6th century. Characterised by intense, personal love for the divine, it bypassed formal elite traditions in favour of regional vernacular languages, empowering marginalised voices and spirituality across the subcontinent. Poets wrote in everyday languages to make spirituality accessible to the masses. The genre fiercely critiqued rigid caste systems, gender inequalities, and empty religious rituals.
The Bhakti tradition was a monumental medieval religious and social reformation that began in South India during the 6th century CE and swept northward, reaching its peak between the 15th and 17th centuries. At its core, it rejected rigid ritualistic orthodoxy, elite priestly monopolies, and the caste system. Instead, it championed salvation through absolute, personal devotion (bhakti) to the divine, rendering spirituality completely democratic and accessible to everyone, regardless of birth or gender.
One of the most beautiful aspects of bhakti at its best is that it burns away superficial differences of practice and opinion, revealing something fundamental, unnameable, and true. Bhakti poets have often attracted interfaith admiration, and many of the bhakti poets were working within a context of interfaith dialogue
Eminent Guests on Stage:
- Salim Arif (Sutradhaar)
- Vineet Kumar
- Harsh Chhaya
- Lubna Salim
- Vaishali Thakkar
