Joining Andy and John for this episode is the poet, novelist and dancer, Tishani Doshi, who has chosen for discussion I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Děd. This collection of poems by the 14th-century female mystic known variously as Lalla, Lal Děd, Lalleshwari, or Lal’arifa was published (in a modern translation by the Indian poet Ranjit Hoskote) as a Penguin Classic in 2013.

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