So goes a song composed by 15th Century Indian poet Meera, a woman who gave up worldly ways to pen Hindu devotional songs about Krishna, believed to be a human incarnation of the god Vishnu.

(The Conversation) — In Hindu devotional poetry, love directed toward Vishnu can take many forms, including service, maternal adoration and the intense intimacy of lovers.

On Gods and godmen in popular Hindi cinema Popular cinema provides abounding social and cultural logic for engagement with religious ideas; the question is whether popular cinema has the space ...