Shukdev Singh
Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He preached an abrasive, some-times shocking, always-uncompromising message exhorting his audience to shed their delusions, pretensions, and empty orthodoxies in favour of an intense, direct, personal confrontation with truth. Linda Hess points out in her introduction that Kabir a pound away with questions, prods with riddles, ...