Bold and Brazen: Verses are Mightier than Villains

About India’s first spiritual revolution aka Bhakti movement and the foremothers who used poetry to redefine faith

Dear subscribers,
Berkana is a place where you will find obscure and forgotten stories from different corners of the world. I truly believe that the bare-bones storytelling style has a magical power to catalyze change. Now, you too are a part of this community. What change do you want to bring? Let me know in the comment section.

Before we dive into today’s topic, here is the list of three posts from previous weeks that you might have missed

1. The lesser-known lives of the women who orbit around the Yakuza and how their exclusion from power will dismantle the Yakuza

2. Some handpicked sordid tales of our collective atrocities on tigers and the consequences that await us.

3. Manipuri women in the Olympics and the indelible legacy that guides them

Let’s jump in!