Lal Ded's poetry a shared culture, says Mita Vasisht

Bhubaneswar POETRY of Lal Ded, the great mystic and a powerful Kashmiri poet, is seminal to almost all Kashmiris, be it Hindus or Muslims, said actor Mita Vasisht.

- DIANA SAHU

On the second day of the Odisha Literary Festival 2023 on Sunday, Mita in a freewheeling chat with senior journalist Kaveree Bamzai said Lal Ded has remained in the Kashmiri consciousness for several years. "When I speak to Kashmiris, they talk about her as though she was still alive and would refer to her in the present tense. She is a shared icon for both Hindus and Muslims," she says.