The recent criticism of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for their handling of communal flare-ups has overlooked the fact that Islam in Bengal has ...

Indian history is replete with stories of fiercely iconoclastic rebels who, refusing to be bound by the strictures and prejudices of religious orthodoxy, bravely denounced social convention in their ...

Like minds think alike. That's what novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay would like to believe. Around the time he was researching on Lalan Fakir for his 'Moner Manush', director Goutam Ghose is said to have ...

One may well reason that the quest for an inner being is an arcane one in the context of the materialistic modern world. But there is no denying the significance of Lalan Fakir's inclusive philosophy ...

Speaking to Goutam Ghose, that man of many summers and many a landmark movie, can be both a delight and a despair. One moment, it is all enlightenment as he talks of Sufism, Lalan Fakir, and those ...

Around Kadamkhali, village-folk sing Lalan’s songs in response to whether they support the CAA, OBC reservation or citizenship to Matuas. “ Sab loke koye Lalan ki jaat sansare, Lalan bhabhe jater ki ...

Mamata Banerjee — politician, poet and painter — is set to add “movie reviewer” to her résumé. “Khoob bhalo laaglo. Amakey review likhtey diley khub bhalo likhtam (I liked it very much. I would have ...

Join singer-songwriter Wriddh as he pays tribute to Lalan Fakir and highlights the philosophy of the Baul Fakirs of East India Keen to understand the music and philosophy of the Bauls of East India?