The Bauls are magical musicians and form an inseparable part of rural West Bengal, India and Bangladesh. Bauls hover around villages or migrate from one place to another and earn their living from singing melodious songs with a simple one string instrument called “ektara”, or use the multi string known as “dotara”.

They come from an unorthodox devotional tradition, and their unique songs are touched by Buddhism, Bengali, Hinduism, Sufi Islam, and Vasinavism yet remain distinctly diverse from them. 

Please click the “PLAY” in the link below and meet this young Baul at Santineketan and I hope you will appreciate his eloquence, music and nerve soothing flute recital.

SANTINIKETAN Series

Part 1 – Tagore’s Poush mela at SANTINIKETAN	https://wp.me/pbXnOA-VA
Part 2 – Song, music, dance of Santiniketan, a countryside drive	https://wp.me/pbXnOA-UX