Traditional Baul musical instrument makers in Kushtia and adjacent districts of Meherpur, Chuadanga and Jhenidah have their hands full, meeting orders ahead of the five-day memorial festival marking ...

Time and again, bauls, fakirs, and sadhus have faced inhumane aggression and had their homes destroyed by vandals who oppose the rise of cultural and social bloom in our country. On June 26, Chayna ...

Bauls, Fakirs, and Sadhus have been an essential element in artistic Bengali culture. Their music carrying the words of celestial love and the love of nature. But time and time again this marginalized ...

An exasperated British rock musician once remarked, after stewing in his own juice at a Baul festival in the village of Boral, now a part of the city of Kolkata: “There are none so sedentary as the ...

Bob Dylan would often visit a studio at Woodstock, New York, where the Baul musicians Purna Das, his brother Luxman and their entourage would hang out in 1967-68. Purna Das, now 83, remembers the ...

Pete Lockett talks to us about collaborating with folk artistes, Bollywood & more... Pete Lockett talks to us about collaborating with folk artistes, Bollywood & more A generously tattooed body, the ...

Thirty-seven years after Asia’s first Nobel laureate, the Bengali cultural polymath Rabindranath Tagore, declared himself a ‘madcap baul’ in his Hibbert lecture in Oxford, UK – in a display of ...