Abu Bakkar, a septuagenarian baul from Meherpur, has pursued the wandering life of a Lalon devotee for over 50 years now. Never has he faced any harassment, that is until early August, when he had to ...

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 ...

The Bhoomi frontman and his friends are going to help 50 wandering minstrels in Santiniketan with medical insurance Financer Avijit Dhara too feels the need to rope in others. Bauls do not understand ...

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 ...

Early this month, Mohammed Fakir and his guests were enjoying an annual conference when they were accosted by religious zealots, conceited enough to arrogate to themselves a moral ascendancy. The ...

The Bauls of Bangladesh were following their spiritual tradition much before the advent of Islam,writes Sumit Paul. The Bauls subscribe to a philosophy that doesn't acknowledge caste, creed and other ...

Ranchi, April 15: People of Jharkhand had their first taste of traditional folk music of Bengal when members of the capital’s Union Club organised a baul programme on the occasion of Bengali New Year.

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 ...

A photo posted by Scroll.in (@scroll_in) on Nov 6, 2015 at 3:59am PST Laltoo Baul didn’t much like being asked to pose for a photograph. “I am working now”, he said, smiling lightly through his ...

In the first-ever initiative for the 'bauls' of rural Bengal, the folk baladeers now come under medical insurance. To honour and support the cause of 'bauls', whose stringed 'ektara' is unique ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Living a bohemian life in France, Mimlu Sen witnesses a performance by the Baul, a group of wandering mystic-minstrels from West ...

Police said unidentified men attacked an Akhra (place where Bauls stay) in the wee hours of Friday in the district’s Damurhuda Upazila. Bauls Zultam Khan and Nagen Halder were beaten up and their hair ...