The lineup includes performances by 10 Kabir artistes, some of them continuing all night long, especially in the villages. Today, the yatra, which draws over 12,000 people to Luniya Khedi, sees an audience of about two lakh. When he started the tradition 24 years ago, it drew some 500-odd people. 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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