बेगमपुरा शहर को नाऊँ।
दूख अन्दोह नहीं तिहि ठाऊँ॥

Begampura is the name of my city.
There is no suffering or anxiety there.

Ravidas · Verse

Translator's note

on the language of the verse

Ravidas imagines a casteless spiritual utopia.

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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