The 10th death anniversary of the legendary Baul Singer and composer Shah Abdul Karim was observed in Bangladesh on Thursday. He is also known as 'Baul Samrat'. Popular TV channels and cultural groups ...

Draped in a simple white saree—an emblem of spiritual purity—Suchona Shely stood in quiet devotion within the studio, her two companions by her side: the ektara and duggi. The saree, unadorned yet ...

A documentary featuring Parvathy Baul will be launched on World Music Day, capturing the essence of Baul Sangeet and Sanatan Siddhashram, enriching the digital landscape with folk music legacy.

Bengali music, including Baul, Rabindra Sangeet, and Bengali theatre, was showcased in hourly slots. 93.5 Red FM, India’s private radio and entertainment network announced the fourth season of Poila ...

Bangladesh Rock Music (popularly called band music) was never lagging behind in its appreciation and performance of Baul music. Post 1971, among the five legends of Bangla rock such as Azam Khan, ...

As religious hardliners tighten their grip in Bangladesh, Baul singers face arrests, attacks and bans. It raises fears that ...

The British agenda of divide and rule saw the partition of India in 1947 precipitated by severe communal riots in Bengal and divide the Baul movement along sectarian lines. It led to the creation of ...

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 ...

From colonial repression to present-day extremism, Bauls have survived centuries of persecution. Today, as radical forces tighten their grip, the fate of the Baul ektara has become a symbol of ...