Celebrating seven centuries of Lalleshwari this year, attention has again been drawn, by the Kashmiri Pandit community, to pay attention to the ongoing narrative of Lal Ded that shifts the ancestral cultural and intellectual capital of Kashmiri Hindus away to credit her insights, literary genius, religious values and philosophy to Islamic sources such as Sufism.…
Lal Ded was deeply influenced by the Shaiva philosophy of Kashmir as reflected in Shaiva metaphysical content of her poetry but in her heart and deeds she remains a common man’s poet. If we keenly observe her life and poetry it can be said with confidence that she neither struggled to become a poet nor…
Dear Readers, Lalded or Lalleswari has dominated the linguistic, cultural and spiritual landscape of Kashmir since the last 700 years. Born in early 14th CE, she cultivated the moral and ethical tapestry in the minds and hearts of people. Her out pouring in the form of vaakhs, are part and parcel of Kashmiri day to…
