Devotional Sung Poetry from Bengal: A Kirtan Concert with Dyuti Chakraborty and Rahul Krishna Bharadwaj

Join us for an online concert of devotional sung poetry from Bengal, featuring the musicians Dyuti Chakraborty and Rahul Krishna Bharadwaj. The concert will present songs from the genre of padabali kirtan that depict the lilas, or divine play, of the Hindu deities Radha and Krishna. Composed in a number of regional dialects of eastern India during the early modern period, the repertoire of devotional poetry presented in this concert remains central to the performative and literary culture in the region. Co-sponsored with the South Asian Studies Council—Yale MacMillan Center, and the Yale University Chaplain’s Office