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  • Radical intimacy: Wisdom from Mirabai, Akka Mahadevi, and other pre-modern women mystics

    Radical intimacy: Wisdom from Mirabai, Akka Mahadevi, and other pre-modern women mystics

    Alexandra Verini
    · Dec 27, 2025 · 07:30 am
  • How mystic poets Baba Farid, Namdeo, Kabir, and Rahim fostered secular sentiments in their poetry

    How mystic poets Baba Farid, Namdeo, Kabir, and Rahim fostered secular sentiments in their poetry

    Namit Arora
    · Nov 28, 2024 · 08:30 am
  • In this new novel, a mystic searches for love and truth across lifetimes and dimensions

    In this new novel, a mystic searches for love and truth across lifetimes and dimensions

    Adi Varuni
    · Feb 14, 2023 · 05:30 pm
  • ‘In Search of the Divine’: Where Sufism’s syncretic legacy meets author Rana Safvi’s personal faith

    ‘In Search of the Divine’: Where Sufism’s syncretic legacy meets author Rana Safvi’s personal faith

    Urmi Chanda
    · Nov 05, 2022 · 05:30 pm
  • Disillusioned with America, did the poet Allen Ginsberg find an antidote to rationality in India?

    Disillusioned with America, did the poet Allen Ginsberg find an antidote to rationality in India?

    Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia
    · Jun 02, 2019 · 05:30 pm
  • Five poems by Lal Ded, the Kashmiri mystic who merged erotic and spiritual longing in her poetry

    Five poems by Lal Ded, the Kashmiri mystic who merged erotic and spiritual longing in her poetry

    Lal Ded
    · Feb 06, 2018 · 05:30 pm
  • Was Ramakrishna Paramhansa’s ‘sadhana’ actually marked by sleep disorder, asks Arun Shourie

    Was Ramakrishna Paramhansa’s ‘sadhana’ actually marked by sleep disorder, asks Arun Shourie

    Arun Shourie
    · May 30, 2017 · 08:30 am