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शून्यता–समानता | Emptiness–Equality
Kabir–Ambedkar–Buddha in Raga
Artistes
In this musical introduction to The Notbook of Kabir, Anand will demonstrate how Kabir often translates and improvises on––and returns to––the Buddha. What is the relationship between Sunnyata (शून्यता, the void) and Samaanta (समानता, equality)? How does the raga that is nirgun (निर्गुण), beyond form and quality (गुण), enfold, embody and inform form, and help us experience both being and nothingness?
Following a brief performance, Anand will be in conversation with Kotiganahalli Ramaiah, poet, playwright, translator and song-writer renowned in the Kannada world.
Artistes
Anand
Anand, editor and publisher at Navayana, has been a student of anticaste thought and Babasaheb Ambedkar for three decades. Since the past seven years, he has been a student of Dagarvani Dhrupad with Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar in Delhi. It was his pursuit of Ambedkar that led him to Kabir, and Kabir made him re-turn to music after a a self-enforced break of fifteen years. The heard-and-sung Kabir led him, in turn, to the vachanas and suttas of the Buddha. He found uncanny parallels in the words and themes of the suttas and Kabir’s verses.
Kotiganahalli Ramaiah
Ramaiah lives in Kolar and is the author of Hejje Mathadu (Songs of Resistance).
