Photo Details

Landscape photography taken with/without Filters (Vol.2)

Name: SK RAHAMAN HOSSAIN

Country of residence: India

Country where picture is taken: India

Title of the Picture: THE BAUL AND HIS LAND

Camera NIKON D5300

Lens NIKON 18-55MM

Filter: Polarizing(PL)

ISO 160

Aperture 6.33985

Shutter Speed: 7.643856

Comment: Desecration: A Baul Singer performing a baul song in the countryside of West Bengal in India.
Baul or Bauls (Bengali: বাউল) are a group of mystic minstrels from Bengal, and living in Rural West Bengal, India & Bangladesh. Their music and way of life have influenced a large segment of Bengali culture; also Baul music had a great influence on Nobel Prize laureate Rabindranath Tagore's poetry and on his music (Rabindra Sangeet).
Bauls live either near a village or travel from place to place and earn their living from singing to the accompaniment of the Ektara, the lute Dotara, a simple one-stringed instrument, and a drum called Dubki. Bauls belong to an unorthodox devotional tradition, influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, Bengali, Vasinavism and Sufi Islam, yet distinctly different from them. Bauls neither identify with any organized religion nor with the caste system, special deities, temples or sacred places. Their emphasis lies on the importance of a person’s physical body as the place where God resides. Bauls are admired for this freedom from convention as well as their music and poetry. Baul poetry, music, song and dance are devoted to finding humankind’s relationship to God, and to achieving spiritual liberation. Their devotional songs can be traced back to the fifteenth century when they first appeared in Bengali literature.
Baul music represents a particular type of folk song, carrying influences of Hindu bhakti movements as well as the Shuphi, a form of Sufi song. Songs are also used by the spiritual leader to instruct disciples in Baul philosophy, and are transmitted orally. The language of the songs is continuously modernized thus endowing it with contemporary relevance.
Lalon is regarded as the most important poet-practitioner of the Baul tradition.
Bauls have ghars (literally, house, lineage) or guru-traditions. These ghars are named after the principal Baul gurus: Lalon Shahi, Panju Shahi, Delbar Shahi and Panchu Shahi. A special