The Poems of Laldev

Shani: I think that's also interesting how different religious groups and constitutions say that she's ours. It's some of the earliest work in the Kashmiri language which is interesting. She kind of invents a poetic form at the same time that the Vak, which roughly translates as sort of saying, they're almost haiku-like in their kind of intensity. We are attributing this to this nistic poet, but it's certainly like, it's a kind of palimpsest of time, of ideas, of author's analyses.

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