ABSTRACT
The poet-wayfarers from different backgrounds and from different parts of India have offered a sense of ‘responsible response’ whenever a crisis has occurred in society, without attempting to create an atmosphere of indoctrination. They rather believe that through their expressions they can maintain their right to dissent in the context of discrimination and injustice while simultaneously being non-violent agents of transformation. In the northern part of India, their participation created what is known as the Bhakti Movement (15th to 17th century A.D.) while in the southern part one such movement is popularly known as the Vachana Movement. Though the world over the years has become more violent a place to inhabit, these unfashionable humanists have proved both politically and culturally more resilient to undemocratic practices and continue to inspire people. This essay attempts to refer to a silent struggle for justice for universal humanism by these poet-saints who are historically not contemporaries yet because of their similar thought and approach to bring in a difference in the lives of people, their humanitarian concern has been considered as most significant to bring in a major change through their silent movement in their own times, and in the history of emancipatory politics in later times.
