The transformation of poetry into authority is the poetic essence and such an authority doesn’t have a specific land or time. A human can convert himself into an authority only by transforming himself from noun to pronoun. Myths are nothing but long collective journeys from noun to pronoun-from specific to general, from self to collective selves. These are leaps into time; leaps which may appear incredible to an ordinary eye. Kandu-Pramlocha love-story may ...
Surdas is an outstanding saint and poet of sixteenth century. He was blind from early age, but was gifted with the celestial vision of spiritual insight. His poetry is a unique symphony of songs and psalms or Bhajans. It is a Samadhi of divine ecstacy of devotion, expressed in the matchless music of words. His poems flow like rivers rushing to mingle in the Rasa Sindhu the ‘ocean of Rasa’ of Lord Krishna. His blind eyes beheld every human act of love ...