Tiruppavai, Andal’s composition, is a concise version of the Vedas and shows devotees the way to attain Krishna’s feet, said Damal Perundevi. Why does Andal wake up Nandagopala, Yashodha and ...

These verses can be understood as, “Andal assumes that Krishna, himself takes the water from the sea, goes up in the sky and fills it in the clouds and shoots his arrow — saarangam — for the ...

In new retellings of Andal, she is whitewashed and sanitised. It is emotional, not erotic. She is made a subservient and submissive devotee, the symbol of jiva-atma, pining for Krishna ...