Starting from his village - Luniya Khedi in Ujjain district of MP - it will travel to nearly a dozen cities and villages in the state in a span of five days. The major leg of Tipaniya’s annual Kabir Yatra will begins on February 20. But over time, I saw the wisdom in the saint’s words… or perhaps the sound of the tambura resonated in my heart,” says the 64-year-old, who punctuates his performances with a discussion on Kabir. “I started to sing because I was told it would help me learn the instrument. At the time, the BSc graduate had no inkling that his hobby would lead him to give up his job as a teacher of maths and science at the village school to become a Kabir singer. When Tipaniya had first heard a Kabir bhajan at a performance in 1979, it wasn’t the saint’s words but the sound of the tambura, a folk instrument of the stringed family being played alongside, that had caught his fancy.
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