Shabd Shala - A Journey into the the world of mystic Poetry in India

Shabd Shaala seeks to give school children a remarkable opportunity to immerse in the wisdom of saint-poets such as Kabir, Meerabai, Gorakhnath, Ravidas and Sufis like Bulleh Shah and Ghulam Fareed.
Mystics teach us to interrogate the world and simultaneously to interrogate ourselves; to question our impulse to ‘other’ certain categories of people based on religion, caste, gender or nationality; to recognise our place in nature and learn to be in consonance with it; to recognise the power of being content, rather than consumptive; to know the power of humility rather than self-aggrandisement; and so to cherish ourselves and each moment with an attitude of non-attachment and very importantly, to learn to quieten our monkey minds.The lessons our children could learn are so many!I
Though several generations of Indian school children have grown up learning ten Kabir couplets (dohe) as part of their Hindi syllabus, however Shabd Shaala believes song is the best possible pedagogy for sharing the power of this poetry, and would bring diverse folk singers from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan & Kutch into physical or digital classrooms as teachers for our children.Additionally they would gain an appreciation of the tremendous diversity of folk music traditions, rural cultures, languages and dialects in which oral literatures thrive in our land.
The ‘Kabir Project’ is currently working with a selection of 10 schools across the country to incubate this idea over 6 sessions, Prakriti being one.
Starting on Jan 15th, the Shabd Shaala team consisting of Shabnam Virmani , a renowned filmmaker , poetess,writer and Director at Kabir Projects and Sahamata made a short presentation to teachers/parents and learners of Prakriti about this idea and have a dialogue.Here are the excerpts, we hope you enjoy it and become a part of this truly remarkable effort.
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