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This immersive performance at CSMVS will shed light on female warikari poets
Updated On: 07 October, 2023 10:48 AM IST | Mumbai | Pooja Patel
The immortal poetry of long-gone female warikari poets will come to life at an immersive listening session that will showcase how their words still ring the truth
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Warikaris at Dehu Mandir and Belawdi Ringan in Pune, during the Pandharpur Waari yatra. Pics courtesy/Sandesh Bhandare
Today, the city will witness a unique event where words composed by women waarikar poets will come to life with music as the centrepiece. Vithu Mazha-Women Warikari Voices, a show organised by the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, will include the performance of mystic songs by Shruthi Veena Vishwanath, Shruteendra Katagade and Yuji Nakagawa. While the state’s warikari tradition is extremely popular and includes poetry by poets across caste and gender, the women warikari saints are not as well known. Shining light on this is Vishwanath, who, since 2015 has been immersed in extensive research of poems and compositions by these women.
“These songs or poems have typically been part of the oral traditions, but around the 19th century these volumes of mystical works were compiled in a book called Sakal Sant Gatha [English: the words of all the saints]. These poems are between 400 and 800 years old,” explains Vishwanath, adding that over the course of history, due to patriarchy, gendered notions and caste struggles, some of these female voices have been erased from the oral traditions. “Although they exist in the text, they aren’t sung anymore, and are mainly by women of marginalised castes,” she says.
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