SVF Music has launched a documentary featuring internationally-acclaimed Baul singer Parvathy Baul, marking her first collaboration with the label. The project seeks to capture the essence of Baul ...

The philosophical depth of Baul songs combined with Parvathy’s infectious energy created an electric atmosphere at an event organised by Emami Art in Kolkata on September 25. Playing the iktara and ...

On Friday evening, renowned performer Parvathy Baul’s voice ranged from lively to sorrowful to passionate. With one hand, she plucked a long one-stringed instrument called an ektara and with the other ...

Baul has brought me more understanding and inner realisation and vairagya (Sanskrit word for detachment), says Parvathy Baul. This music is transmitting the wisdom of the bauls, the yogis who took 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 ...

Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in collaboration with the Dhatri Foundation and Ekathara Kalari presented ‘The World of The Bauls’, a unique festival that provided an authentic ...

It was a soulful experience for devotees of Baul music and philosophy who attended the event titled Baul Shondhya, where a wide array of popular and thought provoking philosophical songs by famous ...

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

Despite her great popularity as a singer and performer, Parvathy Baul is clear about one thing. “I’m not a musician. I’m a Baul, and when I travel, I do so as a Baul pracharak (preacher)," she says.

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 ...

He is a filmi baul. Not only because he has lent his voice to Mangal Pandey or featured in Mira Nair?s The Namesake but also because Kartik Das Baul?s career began with a film. ?The year was 1979,?