ऐसा चाहूँ राज मैं जहाँ मिले सबन को अन्न

I long for a kingdom where all receive food and dignity equally.

Ravidas · Verse

Translator's note

on the language of the verse

A radically egalitarian social vision.

The voice

Ravidas

रविदास

The Leatherworker Who Imagined a Casteless World, c. 1450 – 1520.

The questions it touches
  • Caste & dignity
  • Refusal
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