For all Bengali music fans, check-out Bengali classic song 'Dil Dariyar Majhete' sung by Purnadas Baul. Music the of song 'Dil Dariyar Majhete' is composed by Purnadas Baul, while lyrics are penned by ...

Bangla folk music is a rich and diverse genre that has evolved over centuries in the eastern part of the subcontinent comprising the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, and Bangladesh. From the ...

Dressed in a red and white lehenga, Genelia Deshmukh has won every Bengali heart as she plays ektara, a traditional folk music instrument, and dances on the popular Bengali Baul song, 'Piriti ...

In the history of Bengali folk music, Baul, Kirtan, Bhatiali and Bhawaiya songs have been revived and re-used the most. But Bengali folk is a rich labyrinth of melodies and cultures — there are ...

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 ...

CHENNAI: Bengal has a rich tradition of music and has given us many eminent musicians. Be it the Vaishnava or the Sufi movement, the music of Bengal was assimilated from different phases with traces ...

Nonetheless, over times and the historical transformation of Baul music what has stood apart – is for reasons unknown, and despite the dominant male singers in the genre, the female voice has a ...

Five miles of cables, forty vocalists and instrumentalists under eighteen, and a total of at least one hundred musicians, more than two centuries of music from the erstwhile Bengal province and ...

The Bauls are mystic minstrels living in rural Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. The Baul movement, at its peak in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, has now regained popularity among the ...

About five hours from Kolkata, the Bannabagram Baul Ashram is ideal for a getaway to immerse yourself in Baul music All images by author Waking up to Baul songs and a glass of fresh date palm juice in ...