Eight years ago, a group of talented musicians who are inspired by Fakir Lalon’s songs and philosophy founded a band after the name of the Baul icon. Although they grew up in the modern milieu, their ...

Bangladesh Loko Sangeet Parishad (BLSP) held a programme featuring Lalon songs at Shawkat Osman Memorial Auditorium of Central Public Library, Shabagh on October 17. The event was organised on the ...

“My body is nothing but a dotara and Lalon songs are like religion to me,” Rob Fakir, a famous Baul singer and Lalon disciple, would always state when asked about himself. Always spotted with a dotara ...

He spoke of women on equal terms at a time when women were not even people in the country where he lived (and they still are not—neither in the land of Lalon nor in the world that we proudly claim as ...

Dhaka, Sept 10 (BDNEWS) – Despite a Supreme Court order issued more than a year back, the government has not yet handed over the possession of the Mazar of Fakir Lalon Shah, one of the greatest mystic ...

Dhaka, July 11 -- BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia has urged the government to take immediate steps to ensure advanced treatment for folk singer and torchbearer of Lalon ...