Dr Dipanjali Deka is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Centre for Writing Pedagogy, Krea University. She has worked at the Archive and Research Centre of Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies. Dr Deka holds a PhD from the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. In her doctoral thesis, she interweaves the pluralities of nirguna bhakti through the oral song and poetry traditions of Lal Ded, Kabir and Azan Fakir. Her broader research interests include music and religion, music and politics, devotional poetic literature and orality, ethnomusicology, performance studies, cultural studies, and Indian aesthetic theory. Dr Deka is a multilingual practitioner of Bhakti –Sufi music, a trained Hindustani Classical vocalist, and an All India Radio (AIR) singer.