About the Book: I Saw Myself : Journeys With Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai
Travelling into the stark deserts of Kutch, I Saw Myself explores the
contemporary presence of epic love legends of the region, such as Sohini-Mehar
and Sasui-Punhu, brought to throbbing verse by the powerful eighteenth-century
Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai. As the authors travel to villages to meet
folk singers and lovers of Latifs poetry, immersing in sessions that stretch
into the night, they unearth a unique, thriving love-soaked ethos in which the
call to oneness rings out like a defiant manifesto for our divisive times.
Retelling epics along with other tales and