Baul music -- the wandering, mystical sound of Bengal’s soil -- has long belonged to akhras, village courtyards and spiritual gatherings. Now, it is travelling somewhere unexpected: into the laptops ...
A Baul music gathering was disrupted after a group of local people attacked the event while allegedly chanting religious slogans in Sylhet's Bishwanath upazila last night (22 March). The incident took ...
Mystic ambience, soulful music and a slight nip in the air perfectly summed up the mood at the Baul Fakir Utsav in Shaktigarh Ground recently. This annual event brings together bauls from rural Bengal ...
Under the new guidelines, the use of microphones during urs, the annual death anniversary commemorations of Sufi saints, has been prohibited.
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Who are the Baul singers facing arrests, attacks in Bangladesh? They challenge religious dogma
New Delhi: Bangladesh has been witnessing a wave of arrests, attacks, and intimidation against Baul singers—the historic wandering mystic minstrels from rural West Bengal and Bangladesh. The latest to ...
Thank you for your time. Could you please share your experience of being in Santiniketan and how this place shaped your singing career? I started singing folk songs when I was thirteen years old. I ...
A group of miscreants disrupted a Baul song event by launching an attack. The incident occurred on Sunday night (March 22) in ...
There’s about eight of us crammed into a makeshift thatch hut so tiny you have to get on your knees to crawl in. We make for an odd menagerie. In one corner, a 20-something young man in a hoodie and a ...
“Aami kichui jaani na, Aami kichui jaani na” (I don’t know anything, I don’t know anything), said a Baul gurujee from Kolkata with an entire world of wisdom flowing from his eyes to a small audience ...
Parvathy Baul on how destiny pushed her to make this mystical singing tradition a global phenomenon Mukolakkal in Nedumangad (Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala) is the unlikeliest place to meet a “baul” ...
In May this year, a performance by baul Gour Khepa was organised by Patrick Ghosh on the rooftop of Ballygunge AC Market. “Gour Khyapa has spoken to the skies,” writes Patrick on his blog, ...
Baul songs, stuffed with enigmas and codes, sum up the existential philosophy of deha tatta (Truth in the Body), probably the central theme of Baulism, outlining the aphoristic concept according to ...
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