Translation becomes a form of transgressive practice with powerful dissident political and ‘heretical’ implications in the Indian context Indian poets also propose a form of belonging as a defiant all-inclusive category, an open-ended process of translation that subverts the quest for origins, transcends the national and celebrates deterritorialization. Modernism and bhakti become paradigms for renewal and for emancipation.
These transactions between translation and creative writing, between English and other Indian languages, between folk music and poetry, between bhakti and Euro-American modernism, bhakti and the blues or the Beats (since the restaging of these medieval compositions is often made in a kind of jazzy, colloquial American idiom, confusing ‘western’ and ‘Indian’ categories), expose the simultaneous confluence of local and global literatures, the porosity of languages and traditions. This paper analyses both the outstanding translations of Kabir Das poetry the translation by Rabindranath Tagore and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.īy exploring how many modern Indian poets (namely, here, Arun Kolatkar, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Dilip Chitre) have chosen to trace their affiliations and lineage back to the inclusive bhakti devotional tradition, I am exploring the fecund connections between practices of translation and creative writing in contemporary Indian poetry, but also the emergence of a modernity that results from the complex interplay of languages, lineages and hybrid transactions. If one reads through the works of Kabir his mysticism, devotion to the supreme God and finding a balance within, are the major themes of his writings. The dialect like Avadhi and Braj were the most prominent.
His legacy is continued by his followers called the Kabir panth. His views against Hindus and Muslim made him their greatest enemy but when he died he was claimed by both the Hindus and Muslims. Some of his works are also found in Sikhism’s scripture Guru Granth Sahib. Kabir has written immensely and some of his works are Bijak, Kabir Granthawali, Anurag Sagar, Sakhi Granth. Kabir Das was a spiritual person and an influential Sadhu.
His writings have influenced the Hindu Bhakti movement. He was born in 1440 to a Muslim weaver family. Kabir Das is a mystic poet and a great saint of India.
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