Shabnam Virmani is a filmmaker, writer and singer. She initiated the Kabir Project journeys in 2002 and has since been exploring the philosophy of the mystics through a deep engagement with their oral folk traditions. Her inspiration in this poetry has taken the shape of four award-winning films on Kabir, a web archive titled Ajab Shahar, three books, teaching, curations, organising urban festivals, rural yatras (journeys) as well as singing and performing herself.