Identify
Song, artist, poet, tradition, language, place, date, participants, and recording context.
Translations & archive
Sound, text,
source, context.
A translation should lead back toward the song. An archive should lead back toward the people, places, and relationships through which it lives.
Book in development
Kabir
Kabir
in song
Kabir bhajans translated into English
Original text · transliteration · translation · notes · singing context
The translation project
A book for listeners and learners
The current body of translations is being shaped into a book that can travel alongside performances, teaching, and retreats.
The intended form keeps the song close: original-language text where available, transliteration, a readable English rendering, and enough context to help a reader understand the poem without mistaking translation for final meaning.
Status: the translations exist; editorial review, source checking, sequencing, annotations, design, and publication planning remain underway.
The living archive
A record with roots
Photographs and recordings are being organized so the public collection can remain useful and trustworthy.
Preserve
Retain original files and keep every edited, compressed, translated, or excerpted derivative traceable.
Contextualize
Connect recordings to complete performances, lyrics, translations, artist information, and the circumstances of transmission.
Seek permission
Confirm publication rights and respect private, sensitive, sacred, or restricted material.
Publish gradually
Open material only when its essential identity, credits, context, and permission status are ready.
What the collection holds
Not only performances
Complete songs and concerts
Alongside excerpts intended for public discovery.
Teaching and transmission
Bhajans being learned, explained, repeated, translated, and remembered.
Retreat and community life
The human settings in which practice becomes relationship.
Travel, rehearsal, and oral history
The surrounding record that makes a performance intelligible.