Varanasi: Plans are afoot for organizing a Kabir festival showcasing the life of Saint Kabir Das, and also invoking other Bhakti cult mystics, including Guru Nanak, Gorakhnath and Rahim Das, who were contemporaries of the saint poet, in Varanasi.
However, the Ravidas Jayanti celebrations at his birthplace in Seer Gowardhanpur area here on February 27 will be a bit subdued and will lack the grandeur of past years as the organisers have decided to avoid big gathering in view of Covid-19 protocol.
The district administration has forwarded a proposal on holding Kabir Mahotsava between February 23 and 25.
District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma told TOI on Sunday, “On the state government’s directive, we prepared a proposal for holding a three-day Kabir Mahotsava and have forwarded it to the culture department to seek state government’s approval.”