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Meera Bai KU The eponymous Bloomer was notAlso known as Meera Bai, this sixteenth century Hindu mystic poet is widely known and cherished in the Bhakti movement culture. Though there are no surviving manuscripts from her time, she is credited with a passionate and blissful poetry style that always centered on Krishna. Her compositions are still sung today in India, mostly as devotional songs, as they are deeply philosophical.