For the Love of God: Women Poet Saints o

Between the third centuries BC and AD were written thousands of verses in Tamil that have collectively come to be known as Sangam literature. The expressions of love between a man and a woman in these love poems gave way to passionate expressions of devotional love where the heroine became the devotee and the hero became God. Through the centuries of patriarchy women negotiated varied levels of existence and largely went unnoticed until they found a path for self-expression through bhakti or dev...See More