Cultural Threat in Bangladesh: Baul, at first glance, appears to be nothing more than a wandering musicians who are devoted to song, melody and a life lived on the margins of society. Music, singing ...

Sanjay Baul is pondering whether he should leave Bangladesh and migrate to India like many other Hindus in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation. The 26-year-old from Gopalganj district in the ...

Parvathy Baul aims to reclaim Baul music's historical roots in the Buddhist Sahajiya tradition through performances of ...

When Aleya Begum, a renowned Bangladeshi Baul artiste, learned of her husband Abul Sarkar's arrest on the accusation of hurting religious sentiment, she broke down. In the same Bangladesh where they ...

Rights campaigners and cultural activists marched on the streets in southwestern Bangladesh to deplore and demand justice over the latest Islamist attack on a mystic singer, which they called an ...

The arrest of ‘baul’ singer in Bangladesh for allegedly hurting the public's sentiments and subsequent Islamists attack on fellow mystic minstrels over the past few days ahs drawn sharp criticism from ...

Bauls are groups of mystic minstrels from the Bengal region of the South Asia, including Bangladesh. Formed in 1980, the psychedelic and hard rock band Nagar Baul follows in the tradition. (National ...