Kabir Project, Akath Kahaani Prem Ki: The Untellable Tale of Love (2025). Performance at the Ishara House, Kochi, Kerala, 2025. Photography by Biju Ibrahim
Akath Kahaani Prem Ki: The Untellable Tale of Love
A performance by Shabnam Virmani accompanied by Shreeparna Mitra
Date: Sunday, 14 December 2025
Time: 6:30 – 7:30 PM
Venue: URU Art Harbour
Weaving together poems and insights from Kabir and Sufi wisdom traditions, Shabnam evokes the ‘akath’ or the ‘ineffable’ that the mystics point us to. Moods and metaphors, fragments and fables wend their way in song across endless borders to appear again and again… each time marked afresh by a new language, territory, author. And yet tirelessly they escape all these markers, bringing us to the untellable place beyond the tale – a place the mystics call Love.
Shabnam Virmani is a filmmaker, singer, and co-founder of the Kabir Project, exploring the philosophy of Kabir and other mystic poets through films, music, a digital archive, festivals, and school programs.