Love, Longing, and the Divine: Padma Shri Shubha Mudgal brings Sufi-Bhakti poetry in musical dialogue at the Royal Opera House, Mumbai
Across the vast landscape of Indian devotional thought, love has remained its most enduring and transformative metaphor. Mystics and poets across centuries turned to the language of yearning, separation, surrender, and ecstatic union to articulate the human relationship with the divine. In these traditions, the beloved is at once earthly and transcendent, personal and cosmic, collapsing the boundaries between the sacred and the intimate.