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4–6 December 2026 · Varanasi

Mahindra Kabira Festival

Three days of Kabir on the ghats of Varanasi: morning and evening concerts by the river, with afternoon conversations about what his poems ask of a listener today.

4Decemberto December 6, 2026
FestivalFri 12:00 AM to Sun 12:00 AM
FormatFestival
PeriodWinter 2026
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CapacityOpen
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Mahindra Kabira Festival

Three days of Kabir on the ghats of Varanasi: morning and evening concerts by the river, with afternoon conversations about what his poems ask of a listener today.

Artists

Meet Shabnam Virmani & Vipul Rikhi.

Portrait of Shabnam Virmani
Kabir Song · Documentary

Shabnam Virmani

Indian documentary maker, singer and cultural worker from Bangalore, artist in residence at the Srishti Institute. In 2002 she founded the Kabir Project, two decades of travelling through Malwa, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab and Pakistan to record the living folk traditions around the fifteenth-century mystic Kabir.

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Vipul Rikhi

Vipul Rikhi is a singer, poet, writer and translator who works with the oral traditions of Kabir and other Bhakti and Sufi poets, singing their poetry in the folk music tradition. His books include "Drunk on Love", on Kabir's life and thought, and "One Palace, a Thousand Doorways". He performs and leads singing workshops in India and abroad.

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Path

The wider context.

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Love as the direct path

Bhakti

The path of loving devotion: surrender, chanting and remembrance as ways to dissolve the sense of separation from the divine.

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Location

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ghats of Varanasi


Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

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