Mirabai

Mirabai was a poet who lived in the north of India in the sixteenth century. She is considered a saint by many Hindus. Her poems express intense, often eroticized, devotion to the god Krishna; she also voices fierce resistance to social conventions that might limit her, such as those of gender and caste. Originally sung and shared orally, these poems were eventually gathered into anthologies and remain popular in India today, where Mira has been the subject of films, plays, books, music, and
visual art.