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Podcast: Poems of Annihilation
Episode: You protect those who seek protection from you
Description: Sufi Lyrics Bullhe Shah Christopher Shackle Murty Classical Library of India Harvard University Press poetry reading of poem 150 and 151 “my beloved set me behind a veil” “the beloved created this body of mine as a bungalow for him to stay in” “as Shah Inayat, you show yourself to Bullha all the time” Bulleh murtylibrary.com premodern panjabi literature Uch mysticism Emeritus Professor of the Modern Languages of South Asia, School of Oriental and African Languages, University of London