Today, the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum will host its annual Kabir festival titled Avagha Rang Ek (Many Colours are One) led by singer Shruthi Veena Vishwanath, tabla player Shruteendra Katagade and sarangi player Yuji Nakagawa. Named after a composition by Soyrabai, a Dalit woman poet from Maharashtra, this immersive evening brings together poems and songs of nirguni, bhakti, vachana, baul and sufi poets, including Kabir, Soyrabai, Akka Mahadevi, Shah Hussein and Narayan Guru.

“Our curation is in Marathi, Kannada, Hindi, Bangla, and Gujarati, among other languages. The musicians are my oldest collaborators. We usually plan half the set to build an anchor and then let the flow take over with the energy of the audience,” says Vishvanath, whose work strives to discover and bring forth voices that aren’t known, especially those of women.