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For a Labour Day Special, Prof. Amit Basole, head of the Centre for Sustainable Employment at Azim Premji University and lead author of the State of Working India report, brings his lifelong inquiry into labour and work to a new frontier: Bhakti poetry, only on Radio Azim Premji University.

Work is worship — and the poetry of the Bhakti movement celebrates it like no other.
Some of the greatest Bhakti poets carried their trade names with pride: barbers, weavers, cobblers, shepherds, sex workers. They were the working classes. Seen through a modern lens, the Bhakti movement was a sweeping intellectual uprising of India’s workers — where deep philosophy found expression through the everyday metaphors of manual labour.

In this special video, released for #internationallabourday, Prof. Basole takes you on a lyrical journey — from the vachanas of the sharanas, brimming with occupational metaphors, to the verses of Kabir and Ravidas, to the stirring chants of the Varkari poets, who declared the equality of all before God.
Bhakti At Work is a powerful exploration of labour, dignity, and devotion — through the timeless poetry of the working classes.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:56 Labour in Vachanas
05:39 Labour in Kabir Vani
09:28 Labour in Varkari Abhangas