"Whenever I imagine Meera, she is always moving – either in dance or she is travelling, she is never still. Because she is not still, you do not see her face, you only see a glimpse of it, and then she becomes hazy again." – Neelima Shukla-Bhatt

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Dr Neelima Shukla-Bhatt is a Professor of Religion at Wellesley College , Massachusetts, United States. Dr Shukla-Bhatt earned her PhD in history of religion from Harvard University. Her academic work draws from the disciplines of literary studies and ethnography. In her teaching and research work she is especially interested in – ‘religious/cultural history of South Asia; the divine and the human feminine in Hindu traditions; Gandhian thought and practices; the self and the other in South Asian philosophical traditions and history.’ She is the co-author of ‘A Fire That Blazed in the Ocean: Gandhi and Poems of Satyagraha in South Africa 1909-1911’ and the author of ‘Narasinha Mehta of Gujarat: A Legacy of Bhakti in Songs and Stories’.

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This is one of a series of uploads for Ajab Shahar, a webspace dedicated to mystic poem and song, created by the Kabir Project team (http://www.ajabshahar.org ; http://www.kabirproject.org).

Interview Translation: Prashant Parvataneni & Shabnam Virmani

Video Credits:
Interview on Zoom by: Prashant Parvataneni & Shabnam Virmani
Online Tech Support: Masoom Parmar
Editing: Prashant Parvataneni
Sub-Titling: Prashant Parvataneni
Background Art Work Courtesy: Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection: Kabir Project

Place of Recording: Bangalore-Wellesley (Online)
Year of Recording: January, 2021