Reclaiming the only lineage of 'Vaishnava Sahajiya Bhakti Tantric Bauls'. Gosia Chand Das Baul and Dasi. This is the only Baul Lineage aka Guru Shishya parampara sampradaya of ancestral indigenous Bhakti Yoga and Kirtan, from Birbhum W Bengal, India since the beginning of the story of Radha and Krishna over 5000 years ago.
No Bauls even talked about Vaishnava until recently when pretendian fake Baul over the past decades started to dress in full tilika and became Radha. Only this lineage that wore Vaishnava tilaka, 'Vaishnava markings on their forehead'.
There is no other parampara regarding Baul? The only Baul Avadhuta was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul over the past hundred years or more, that is full and final Baul history.
All the firsts and lasts of this lineage are being reworked, and acted out in a looting of this lineages songs, dress, style, dance, instruments and what they have already lived as firsts and lasts regarding Baul?
'Baul and Tantra' Baul tattva's have only ever been told by this lineage, are only associated with this lineage. 'Baul and Gaudiya Vaishnavism' have always been closely tied to this lineage as this lineage or Guru Shisya Sampradya's ancestor is Nityananda of Ekachakra, Birbhum West Bengal India. This lineage has fundraised endlessly for the Gaudiya Math for decades. 'Ramakrishna and Baul' is only associated with this lineage has been a major fundraiser and deeply associated through KD Babu Kishan who was a monk in the Ramakrishna Mission for 12 years, doing the work.
My God what is going on? Picking the bones off this lineage will never make you legit, and when KD Babu Kishan starts to speak all will be told.
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2025/04/fake-pretendian-hawker-baul-critique.html
Cultural mis-appropriation does not happen only outside of India, the biggest threat to indigenous Baul is right inside India laced with lies and false narratives, using the already lived lives of this lineages firsts and last and claiming them?
Disclaimer:
What has been written in this post and other posts, blogs, Websites since the 1990's, since 2008 in this blog lineagebaul.blogspot.com, in now out of print KD Babu Kishan's 3 other books has nothing to do with any other traveling Baul today. If you are reading this blog to try to understand any pretendian social media famed self-titled Bauls they have nothing to do with the history of this one and only pioneering lineages. This is why the reclaiming of this lineages songs, styles, dance, instruments, kirtans, the history of this lineage.
Where they went and what they did are of utmost importance, they worked very hard pioneering Baul a small sect to all of Bengal, all of India and worldwide since the 1950's to have all their songs, all their firsts and lasts intellectual property stolen and reworked acted out through pictures, singing and now through watered down false narratives.
This lineage is distinct indigenous ancestral from.
Therefore, if you are coming here to learn about Baul and super impose that over another fake lineage, there is no association and all songs will eventually will be qualified.
KD Babu Kishan is the only expert in Baul songs, music, and the folk music of India as he categorized all the folk music of India for the big recording companies in Mumbai. He knows what is a Baul song, who the poets are, he has been preserving Baul for over 60 years, we are not selling anything, collecting donations or fundraising for a jackpot, he does not want to be a Baba, his only claim is the preservation of his ancestral indigenous human rights of self-determination as an indigenous Baul so that Baul is preserved correctly for future generations, not some watered down, reduced version. This lineage pioneered Baul and made Baul famous, and because of that many have used Baul, faked Baul for recording contracts, donations and fundraising for financial jackpots?
Krishnendu Das Baul aka Babu Kishan BabuKishan.org is the eldest of his generation of Bauls, a disciple of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, he is tired of all the lies and myth makers, whether that be academic scholars, journalists or fake pretendian actor shilpi Bauls.
https://mirrorofthesky.blogspot.com
All first and lasts of Baul come from this lineage. There are others constantly making claims they are the first, they act all pure, humble sweet and innocent, they are not. But how would you know, you do not know the history of Baul, most do not know the language or Baul and you do not know what questions to ask? Baul is not an art, show, performance, it is a serious indigenous ancestral sadhana. The truth must be told. Baul is not a yoga or siddha Parampara, there are so many nuances to Baul that only a indigenous Baul can know, the fake Bauls are twisting Baul to fit a market game in the lucrative Baba and Ma business.
So if you are coming here to lean about some other traveling Bauls, what is written in this blog has been poached, and has nothing to do with any faked famed social media self-titled Bauls. If you read it or see the details of this lineage or KD Babu Kishan or his families life stories reworked and presented as generic, random Baul with their names taken off of the history of Baul, 100% it was taken from this lineage and reworked as random or generic Baul did this or that they are mis-appropriating this lineages stories and history.
https://indiafolkheritageofbengal.weebly.com/cultural-misappropriation.html
It is absolutely insane that this has to be spelled out?
For the past decades Baul has been faked, used, their songs, style, dress, instruments, lived stories, where they went, what they did all remade and reworked by nakal fake shilpi Bauls. These myth-makers fakes have created 'fake Baul Gurus' and 'Fake Baul lineages' and how would you know, you wouldn't, there are many myth makers, speculators and just plain old users of Baul, just as there are fake Tantrics and Sadhus today it has become an industry.
This one and only Baul lineage, a Guru Shisya Parampara Sampradaya has had their intellectual property stolen, songs, dance, dress, instruments, stories, replaced by fake lineages and fake Baul Guru's.
Baul has become a Master class in Emotional theatre of over hype, dripping of carefully selected photos?
The intellectual indigenous property theft from this lineage is reaching a new phase of false narratives, their lived lives as first and lasts in Baul have been taken and replace by false associations. A new cult of personality for at least the last 15 years in one instance, previously since the 1970's has arisen. The first generation of pretendian Bauls were refugees' who copied Purna Das Baul, an earlier waved copied Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and now the most recent wave copy Nabani, Purna Das Baul and KD Babu Kishan for recording contracts, to travel the world and to fundraise in the name of Baul?
An important distinction: Baul has been preserved by KD Babu Kishan over more that 60 years, there is no need for any fake Bauls to fundraise to preserve Baul, Baul is already preserved.
So called-experts regarding Baul are poaching the bones off the lived lives of this lineage. They take the names of this lineage off and then relegate the stalwarts of this lineage Baul Samrat, Pandit, Padma Shree Purna Das Baul calling him a shilpi Baul on the internet? It is utterly insulting for these fakes? They act all knowing and innocent while appropriating Baul, not even knowing what they are talking about, the people outside over today the younger ones in India have no idea, they are paying to learn Baul from people who do not know what Baul is other than by appropriation starting from their fake Bauls Guru's who took everything from this lineage and acted out what they could copy.
The biggest threat to indigenous Baul the Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Baul, of Birbhum, is AI 'artificial intelligence', especially for those sewing false and fake narratives, they think they are the authority of Baul based on false narratives, the songs, style, dance of this ancestral lineage, copying of their lived lives, time is up and they will be qualified.
They use a scattering of the false narratives and throw them out there for public consumption acting as if they know or if they were associated with Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and Kd Babu Kishan's already lived lives as far as Baul and 'Tantra & Baul' 'Gaudiya Vashnavism & Baul', 'Baul & Ramakrishna', 'Baul & Rabindranath Tagore', 'Baul and recording Baul music" "Baul and all Indian radio' 'Baul and international travel" "Baul and teaching at Universities', "Baul and 'Indian Cinema aka Bollywood' all the while trying to throw it out there saying Purna Das Baul is a shilpi Baul? While stealing this lineages songs and adding the wrong poet or not giving an poets name? Baul history was only associated with music in the past now they are trying to rework and control the historical narratives, first of all by making Baul random and generic by showing up on pod casts and what comes out of their mouth is not correct.
Bauls have specific names, if you are going to use something from this Baul lineages history, state where you got the information and be truthful, stop the intellectual property theft of this lineage by making Baul generic, Baul and Tarapith, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is the only Baul who did sadhana at Tarapith, that is Baul history, many tried and copied him hanging out at Tarapith and singing the songs of this lineage or more recently they came out of the woodwork with woodwork. Baul history is Purna Das Baul, Manju Dasi and Kd Babu Kishan were associated with the London Library, Museum, and The Royal Albert Hall since the early 1970's, 1980's. They were the only Bauls associated with Bob Dylan and KD Babu Kishan is the only reason you can listen to Bob Dylan in India as he is the only Baul ever to work or have a career in Indian Cinema (Bollywood) for 40 years he released all Bob Dylans music in India and Asia through CBS India back in the 1980's and 1990's, there is a history there.
Baul history only belongs to the indigenous ancestral Bauls, it should never be made a no name brand, Baul received a Padma Shree, those Bauls have a name and it is Purna Das Baul. Don't use or tell the stories of this lineage to bolster yourself, when you are not a Baul, but a fake shilpi Baul duping people to take advantage of Baul.
Only this lineage has pioneered Baul worldwide through Cultural programs since the 1950's and in Indian since Nabani Das Khyapa Baul as the first Baul ever to sing on stages all over India as part of the freedom movement for Nehru way before 1947 the new India's inauguration.
Krishnendu Das Baul aka KD Babu Kishan has been teaching Baul worldwide since the 1970's, teaching Bhakit Yoga, Tantra, Indian Philosophy, Indian music, because he is qualified, he did the work, he is indigenous to Baul. He was a Monk in the Ramakrishna Mission for 12 years and fundraised for the Ramakrishna Mission, he is the only Baul in Baul history to have a relationship with the Ramakrishna Mission. He is the Baul who first wrote about Baul Tattva's. It is unbelievable how that Baul history can be usurped and reworked and claimed by any fake Bauls?
Stop making up firsts in Baul, Baul is complete, there are no more firsts and Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is the fist Baul to sing solo in Calcutta. First of all you can stop the theft of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul styles of dance, Ektara, Baya and Nupoor, history is it, that you fake Guru copied it from Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, this copying and claiming has to stop, this fakery has to stop. It wouldn't be a problem if the narratives were so fake. Many villagers sing Baul songs, many act Baul out and even ask for donations by they do not try to create cults by using Baul.
KD Babu Kishan is the only Indian music composer, there is no other, real authentic Music Composer, a qualified certified Indian composer, check his website BabuKishan.org .
He did not live his life or preserve Baul for over 60 years to have some fakes arrive with false narratives, dressed in costumes presenting themselves as if they are the ones that lived his life, remaking his lineages stories, the stories of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and his own life. While making them random and generic so that fake pretendian non-indigenous shilpi Baul wanna- be's can come along with fake Baul Gurus and fake Baul lineages lying to attract people.
It is insidious to say the least. The truth shall be told boldly now because it has gone too far over the past at least ten years if not decades. What is going on today is not unlike anything of the past, however, at least the fake it til you make it Bauls everybody knew were just singers, today they are taking every association from this lineage and advertising using this lineages lived lives.
False narrative and false associations of already lived full and final first and last regrading Baul from this lineage, replaced with half a line of truth, using every possible association this lineage has lived. Reading from this blog even using lineage, then twist it and making up fake lineages with fake Baul Gurus, where there is proof they are not a Baul Guru.
Some false narratives there are 4 or 5 types of Baul, sai, aul, dervish, fakir, shah, no, wrong and repeated over and over? There is no such thing as a Muslim or Islamic Baul. This was created for fundraising purposes. Lalon Fakir was not a Baul he was a poet, he did not do Baul sadhana (practises or live the Baul way of life). Distinctions matter. Babu Kishan is the first to record Lalon's poetry in the early 1970's he brough a bunch of Bangladesh singers to Calcutta and recorded them and has his father Purna Das Baul sing some of the poetry which KD Babu Kishan put a tune to as they did not have a tune previously.
These fake Bauls copied these songs thinking they were Baul songs, same with Bava Pagla, he used to come to their house to hang out with Purna Das Baul and to get KD Babu Kishan to record music for his poetry. People are so dense and just assume and make up myths to fit what narrative they are pushing. Same with Monohar Kepa he was not a Baul, he was a poet and friend of this lineage, other pretendian Bauls hung out with him because they thought they could achieve a drop of his fame or Vaishnava essence, he was not a Baul, KD Babu Kishan knows he created tunes for his poetry, he too visited their home in Calcutta all the time, I believe he knew Nabani Das Khyapa Baul too.
Bauls are not nomads, this is another one spread by academics, don't they understand what a nomad is?
Baul history and her-story is full and final, you can stop making it up, because first you are not a Baul. Nabani Das Khayap Baul, and Purna Das Baul were the first to sing solo songs in Calcutta. What the hell is going on, there are no more firsts and fist you have to Baul to be included in firsts?
Bauls are Vaishnava Hindu poets, teachers, Baul Guru's, healers, without the villagers of Birbhum there is no Baul they are intricately joined together. Bauls are part of the villages of Birbhum as healers, peacemakers, teachers, feed all, love all, help all. They are an ancient Baul Guru indigenous people of Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism). Baul has been watered down and over simplified to include all the myth- makers called fake pretendian Bauls, journalists and academic scholars.
There is no Baulessence to what they repeat like a broken record, no adhikara, they do not know the nuances or distinctions and they twist it to make themselves the saviour of Baul, what for, collecting donations, fundraising for jackpots, international travel, recording contracts and the lucrative Ma and Baba business. Acting virtuous as if perhaps they may be the new coming of Vivekananda, or even another Ma aka AnandaMayi Ma?
Baul does not collect people, they throw it out there to see what will stick, covering every aspect of this lineage Bauls already lived lives? There is way too much chaos and confusion among the fake authorities on Baul? We have proof their Guru is not even a Baul Guru and they do not have a lineage. However, they have a gimmick of attraction?
If the reclamation of indigenous Baul, this one and only lineage aka Guru Shisya parampara Sampradaya are not accurate it will be so reduced confused that no one remembers. There is no other parampara and certainly Baul is not a Yoga parampara nor would they be called a Siddha parampara only Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was a Baul Avadhuta and in that he was associated with Bama (Vama) Kepa and the Naths. Regular Bauls are not, you guys are using everything from this lineage, that is indigenous fraud. There will be no more silence, your acting has gone too far.
Even Vishva Bharti University is so incompetent today they do not remember who Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was. An art historian doesn't know a simple stature of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul by Ramkinkar Baij needs protection and can't even tell who the sculptor is?
They do not know who is a Baul and who is not, they do not know the secret nuances and distinctions of who and what is Baul anymore. Everybody is just play acting using this lineages history remaking their history with fake Baul Gurus and fake lineages, that is a myth maker. If Baul is not correctly and accurately preserved by an indigenous Baul who lived the stories it will be wiped from the earth through false narratives and the theft of their intellectual property, there will be way too much indigenous fraud watering down Baul, reducing the authentic secrets of Baul and Baul will be lost in time.
Not only is this disturbing to indigenous Baul, it is heartbreaking and the breaking of the Essence of Baul. Nakal fake, shilpi actor Bauls do not care, they are not from Baul it is not their ancestry they are not indigenous, but from other parts of India and from middle class families? Decorated with a fake Baul Guru and fake lineage they are not from Baul. They create a patchwork of false narratives and throw it out there to see if their act sticks, if not they move on to the next false narrative. Touch their feet, as they are the almighty new Ma and Sri Shri?
Today with AI this fakery will further muddy the waters of Baul and completely destroy all indigenous practices by watering them down and reducting their intellectual property into one liners of false associations, usually to collect people to be part of the lucrative Baba and Ma BUSINESS.
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2025/04/fake-pretendian-hawker-baul-critique.html
It will be too late to have an accurate history or her-story, there are too many outsiders and fakes who specifically are determined in undermining and destroying accurate Baul history, only because they are desperate to be a Baba or Maa.
It used to the Academia and scholarly false narratives who view everything through a colonized glasses, which is still a huge threat to Baul through speculations and false narratives copied and pasted from one wrong book to another acting as authority and trying to self-determine who is Baul, however now there are more than one or 2 distinct threats to Baul.
It was only this lineage who pioneered Baul throughout the India and the world, there is a story that has never been told or remembered. Baul has been tampered with through internet logarithm tampering. These false narratives and fake Bauls will affect truth in regards to artificial intelligence AI. It has become an absolute must to reclaim the truth of this one and only indigenous pioneering guru Shishya PARAMPARA sampradaya.
The truth and self-determination of Baul can only be achieved through the indigenous ancestral Baul, no outsider at this point should be using Baul.
This is KD Babu Kishan's mission and goal for over 60 years is to reclaim who the Bauls are and to expose all the fake who are not being up and up, who are stealing the intellectual property from this lineage. This lineage has no association with the fakery of Baul today, it has no association with the dread locked gimmick of Baul, no one should be using the songs, style, dance or any association of the already lived lives of this lineage in regards to Baul. Do your Baba and Ma business, however, do not use anything from this lineage.
No random Bauls (fake pretendian hawker Bauls) generic so-called, self-titled (Baul Masters) which there is no such thing should be using the songs, style, dress, or any of the already lived stories or association of this one and only lineage of Baul. The nuances of this ancient Baul lineage are subtle, delicate and precise and difficult to analyze. Generalization, randomization, generic, making Baul random is insidious
Their goal is usurp the adhikara of indigenous authority of Baul by making Baul random, by throwing whatever will work in their favour changing, if one thing doesn't work, they try another by replacing fake narratives with ancient Baul for only one purpose, the hawker business.
As one person from the 1970's labeled, the 'fake it til you make it' Bauls now travelling the world for the past decades are not Bauls they are hawker Bauls some closer to this lineage, some so far using the Das Baul name and Baul as a way to fame when they have appropriated Baul and created stories that are so tear jerking of there guru, the power, how holy he was, when he was not even a Baul? Because of all this fakery we are now telling the real truth and stories of how this fake Baul Guru poisoned Baul Samarat Purna Das Baul?
Oh yes, the real stories will be told, you will learn the truth for the sake of the correct preservation of indigenous Baul.
They nefarious activities in the name of Baul (Vayu Tula) the intellectual identity theft, the indigenous wisdom stolen or reconstructed, everything Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul has accomplished over 6 decades and from his ancient indigenous people, appropriated, stolen and reworked.
It is beyond belief, you can not make this up anymore, and we can not allow this fakery, reductionism, and watering down of the essence of who and what Baul is to continue. So we will boldly be calling out the culprits, whether it is popular or not.
The purpose and Krishnendu's Das Baul aka KD Babu Kishan's legacy has always been for over 60 years in preserving Baul accurately as was asked of him by his Guru's and Grandparents Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Brajabala Dasi who were the last Baul Avadhut and both the last pure Vaishnava untainted indigenous Bauls (Vayu Tula) to walk on earth. No one should be faking Baul anymore, it is over.
However, the fakes continue to 'ride on the coattails' of this lineage. First starting in the 1970's a group of refugee's from Bangladesh became known as the, 'fake it til you make it Bauls' because, they copied all Purna Das Baul songs from the radio, he was a popular Baul and Indian singer, the first famous vocalist to travel the world as a representative of Indian culture. The fakes then copied his dress, dance, instruments, went where this went, and began recording music as this lineage, copying their songs? There are actually laws against this in the west, however, India is further behind, still it doesn't make it ethical or acceptable when the first tenant of Baul is tell the truth, satya. These fake Bauls took whatever they could to survive, perhaps that is why nothing was said, however, today we live in a different world.
Do what you want be an authority on yourself lie cheat do whatever you have to, but cease and desist in copying Babu Kishan's already lived life, reworking his stories to fit the agenda's of your Ma and Baba business and play acting. It doesn't matter how popular the pretendians are as social media influencer, it will never make them authentic, when you make up a fake Baul Guru and a fake lineage you are nothing more than a liar?
Permission to use any of the intellectual property of this lineage is not granted, stop using this lineages style of dance, dress, songs, kirtans and their indigenous history. If you are not indigenous to Baul you have no right to self-determine who Baul is or use Baul as your way to social media fame, travel the world, or even teach in the name of Baul. You will be exposed.
You already read the copyright notices for years, and still felt entitled to poach whatever you wanted (where is the satya and consciousness of these type of activities) using stories from this blog that only could have been told by Babu Kishan. Stealing the songs and kirtans directly off his youtube channel and from Purna Das Baul recordings or from the radio? Do you honestly think we are that stupid?
We are not related, Baul is not related to hawkers Bauls, do not research here, and think we are them, there is no relation, no association. So if you are coming to this blog to learn about some other traveling Ma or Baba self-titled Bauls they are not Baul and we have no association.
I am not talking about villagers of Bengal or the road side street singers, these songs were meant for you.
I am talking about the fake wanna be expansion-ist who re-record Baul songs, the fake pretendian Bauls who are lying duping the public, this insidieous, the ones who have made up fake lineages and fake Baul Gurus who have systematically told lies in the name of Baul while skimming this lineage, they are the ones who are destroying Baul the internet Maa and Baba going to be the second coming of Vivekanada poaching, twisting, the actors on steroids, spewing whatever false narrative with stick, these are hawker Bauls, they appear sweet always smiling and looking very humble with dread locks they must be authentic, well there is another side and we are guilty of ignoring this for far too. Please, understand the implications for future generations.
Yes, because of the internet and tampering with the alogorithims which determine how content is filtered, ranked, selected and recommended to users, they use bots too, because seriously can anybody be that dense or fall for this marketing, selling of an indigenous people?
Bauls are loud and noisy and critical of this kind of stupidity play acting. Bauls have an energetic fire, with a dangerous wit calling out ignorance and theft, and they have a fighting spirit with an intellect and discernment to go along with their wit. Bauls are like Krishna / Kali armed with yoga stand and fight. The fakes are drippy, slithery, and slimy crooked actors and young people get caught in this cult mentality. It is a pathetic display of fakery.
Bauls are not experts on social media, they do not know how algorithms influence social media, only a social media expert can work this out.
I guess our next step after Babu Kishan's 4th book is published is to acquire a social media expert to get the truth of Baul out, we are not collecting people, our goal is only the correct preservation of this lineage correctly and to stop the abused of fakery that have flooded the internet and duped people for far too long. We do not want you to join us, this was never the intention of Baul, all Baul wants is peace and for you to look inside and be your own energetic power.
These insidious fakes continue to poach and manipulate the minds of people who do not have a clue, everything from this lineage, songs, style, dance, kirtans, and this lineage Baul history twisting it as a promotion to collect people.
Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul in his energetic fire does not want anything to do with what he calls hawker Bauls, he finds them degrading of how easily they lie. He says they have no ground or to even talk about Baul.
Cultural Mis-Appropriation = Indigenous Genocide, leads to the deletion of Indigenous ancestral Bauls and is replaced by the pretendian Bauls.
Pretendian Bauls:
Fraud and identity theft are erasing indigenous Baul, by replacing indigenous Baul?
The Pretendians is a documentary made in Canada that gives a clear picture of the seriousness of the subject of pretendian you are something that you are not. “When people steal from our culture they end up distorting our culture, they turn it into something we do not even recognize, erasing us by replacing us.” This has happened to Baul, they have been erased by fake Bauls who have distorted Baul which is an indigenous tradition, lineage based on ancestry.
https://www.knowledge.ca/program/pretendians
https://globalnews.ca/news/9450313/pretendians-canada-indigenous-ancestry/
https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/analysis-bourassa-pretendian-metis-scholars-redefined-indigenous-identity-policy/
The wokism of the world has allowed people to self-identify as cats, and dogs? People self identify as yogis, music composers which is the PHD of music, and every indigenous group in the world. The problem with self-identification with indigenous Baul or perhaps any indigenous group has taken away the self-determination and opportunities of these marginalized groups. When the indigenous people are not the representatives of their ancient ancestry and they are replaced by outsiders who merely copy their dress, style, songs and narratives, the survival of these groups is extinguished because the essence is not present.
Moving beyond self-identification
"While the revelation of Bourassa’s identity fraud brought tremendous hurt and feelings of betrayal to the Métis and broader Indigenous community, we did not anticipate our complaint would transform identity politics.”
In Canada, universities, governments and other agencies are now implementing ancestry-verification policies. Individuals are required to show proof of membership, connection or citizenship to an Indigenous community when applying for opportunities reserved for Indigenous Peoples.’
Those opportunities reserved for indigenous people include grants, funding, awards, prestige and opportunities specifically set aside to help marginalized communities who are indigenous.
“There are two kinds of fraudsters, according to Teillet: fabricators who invent Indigenous identities whole cloth and embellishers who exaggerate some perceived connection.
Some embellishers bolster their claims using the results of DNA tests showing small percentages of Indigenous heritage. Others exploit unverified family stories about a distant Indigenous relative. Whatever kind of identity fraud they’re engaging in, they generally lie to get ahead professionally.
Maybe they want an Indigenous award or grant or acceptance into networks that are closed to them.
Such fraudsters exploit affirmative action initiatives or diversity, equity and inclusion protections,” says Teillet.
As an Indigenous applicant, the person could be accepted into law or medical school when they’d otherwise be rejected. And sometimes, the motivation is even simpler: “They want something that makes them unique and different, and this gives them a chance to say they’re special,” Teillet says.
https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/gill-sisters-pretendian-fraud/
“Their adoption of Indigenous identities allows them access to jobs, money, and opportunities that are set aside for Indigenous people. Pretendians raise issues with respect to employment/labour law, charter, and privacy issues. It also calls into question recent Supreme Court of Canada case law. These identity issues – whether it is an individual right to identify as Indigenous, whether the Indigenous nation has any say, whether there are any necessary requirements to claim an Indigenous identity – are very much in the spotlight as writers, filmmakers, lawyers, and academics are exposed in the press for having little or no right to the Indigenous identities they have been claiming. Some have made these dubious claims for decades and have built fame, prestige, and careers on them.”
“What a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive — that’s what happens. They get tangled up in their own stories,” said Teillet, who is the great-grandniece of famed Metis leader Louis Riel. Teillet’s report examined the harm caused by Indigenous identity fraud, outlined red flags for spotting potential deceit and suggested measures to prevent it. It came in the wake of a series of controversies over claims of Indigenous identity by prominent members of Canadian academic, literary and entertainment circles in recent years.” Canadian Lawyer Jean Teillet LLP
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/indigenous-identity-theft-is-more-widespread-than-people-think-says-metis-lawyer-jean-teillet/
Seriously and it may sound petty but there is pretendian Baul and their social media minions who have been telling Babu Kishan's personal lived stories about Nabani and name dropping Bob Dylans name as if they actually know, they don't, telling stories from this blog that have only he has ever been told here. This is identity theft and intellectual property theft, copying his life, where he goes, what he has lived bit by bit, copying Purna Das Baul and Nabani Das Baul and making up fake Baul Guru's and Fake Baul lineages (all can be proved and is documented). Just because it looks exotic does not mean it is, the more exotic a person looks the more fake they usually are, it is costume, if you are interested in Baul you have to be smarter than social media charm.
Unfortunately this is a real thing regarding the new phenomenon
of social media faked famed pretendian Baul actors,
sometimes called Baul artists or Baul Masters?
Appreciation and Appropriation
are 2 completely different things.
The dangers of untruths already perpetuated by fake hawker pretendian Bauls, is reductionism, watering down, abusing the intellectual property of this one and only lineage of Baul. Twisting there make up story to claim supremacy over Baul, they start with poaching one thing, get a little bolder, thinking no one is watching, no one cares, no one knows, the next thing they rework history, drop one liners about drops of history and wella they are the authority, they change their names to Sri Sri and are now experpts in Baul, it can be very subtle, it is no different from what has happened in the west with Yoga, Tantra ect, they take some courses and are now expert Yogi's while the indigenous part of Yoga is dropped with the essence gone they now are Yogi's, Tantrics, Bhakti Yogis and slowly the nuances disappear and it is not like the authentic ever was. It is now a product to be marketed and they are now the experts, however, the essence is gone, the nuances have disappeared and they are the ones who invented and brought Baul to the west.
It is a scam, a lie, an untruth, inauthentic acting game of using this lineage? So if you read it here and think the other is this, they are riding on the coattails of this lineage, they are not Baul, they are using Baul and have been doing so for decades?
Our mission to archive Baul accurately and authentically from a first hand indigenous source for the ancestors and future generation interested in indigenous Baul Sanatan Dharma aka Hinduism and the authentic correctly nuanced Baul source.
The practices and the stories of this lineage only 'oldest and only' lineage of Baul who pioneered Baul and preserved Baul (Vayu Tula) for thousands of years. Therefore, if you are reading this, thinking this pertains to the fake Bauls, it has nothing to do with them, this is the only lineage are the only Bauls who are Bhakti Yogi's and are the only lineage of Baul Kirtan. As far as I can see and I have watched, researched, documented and listened to Babu Kishan 24/7 during this time is that hawker Baul only water down and reduce Baul and are devoid in the essence of Baul. Rodham and Parvthy are in the Baba and Maa business a game to claim and take the authority of Baul over to collect people and fundraise for financial jackpots. They morph constantly, they will twist and try, but the fact remains, she has appropriated the songs from this lineage, she dances Nabani Das style of Ektara, Baya, and wears his style only of ankle bells everything is copied from this lineage. Explain that one and if Babu Kishan did not speak out, who would know? The copying, appropriating does not fit the reality they speak.
This is a rough draft, it still needs to be edited. It is long with a few articles hooked together, I am working on it, but wanted to put it out there, because if I don't say now, the fake Bauls will have made youtube videos where they poach Baul from the writings on this blog, all documented in my files and it will be made public, this has gone on for too long, this is what happens when fake people have no shame or sense of truth.
Copyright, no poaching and plagiarizing for youtube videos? This unfortunately must be brought to the attention of the public, because of Jackpot fundraising, donation collecting when you are not indigenous to Baul is indigenous fraud. Fundraising to preserve Baul when Baul has been preserved by this lineage and over 60 years by Babu Kishan is indigenous fraud and indigeous intellectual property theft, so think next time you steal a Baul song from this lineage or right off Babu Kishan's youtube channel and feel entitled to re-record it? We will openly call all this out now, it has gone on for too long. What is real appears as false, and what is false appears as real, this is Kali Yuga the time we live in. Stop indigenous fraud.
“Their adoption of Indigenous identities allows them access to jobs, money, and opportunities that are set aside for Indigenous people.
Pretendians raise issues with respect to employment/labour law, charter, and privacy issues. It also calls into question recent Supreme Court of Canada case law.
These identity issues – whether it is an individual right to identify as Indigenous, whether the Indigenous nation has any say, whether there are any necessary requirements to claim an Indigenous identity – are very much in the spotlight as writers, filmmakers, lawyers, and academics are exposed in the press for having little or no right to the Indigenous identities they have been claiming. Some have made these dubious claims for decades and have built fame, prestige, and careers on them."
This one and only lineage does not follow others, others follow them.
These pretendian Baul actors make up stories, teach false narratives while 'riding on the coattails' of this lineage, this has been proven and I have hundreds of documented examples and proof.
Babu Kishan says, these type of people or the pretendian Bauls are HAWKERS. I didn't understand, then he explained those that change their story all the time are hawkers, they do what brings attention, if what they do doesn't work they move on to the next thing at all costs. This is not new, this has been going on for decades and probably started with their self-titled, so called Baul Gurus.
Baul Hawkers are random wandering people who have no roots in Baul, they watched us closely, learned our songs, then followed where we traveled in India and worldwide, they copied our style Nabani Das Khyapa Baul style in every way including dance 'Ektara' (Gopi Chand or Gopi Yantra only this lineage) Baya the drum tied around the waist, and his and Purna Das Baul (only) style of ankle bells called Nupoor 'ankle bells encased in metal', our dress, songs, Baul Kirtans and our style of Baul Vaishnava Sahajiya Bhakti Yoga that only comes from this lineage.
Baul tantra even coming out of the woodwork with woodwork, our lineage of Baul no other fake Bauls ever talked about kirtan?
Our songs taken and re-recorded with no permission right off youtube and the radio or past albums recorded only by this lineage. Boldly feeling entitled to take whatever they want, listening to and re-recording, acting out the songs in our style while attributing the whole lot to a fake Baul Guru? Copied right off Babu Kishan's aka Krishnendu Das Bauls youtube channel and off the radio. Without permission they re-recorded our songs, without giving credit, and taking our names off.
They used our stories making them random by random we mean talking the names of the stories off of the Bauls who lived the stories as an example: Even Baul associated with Rabindranath Tagore, Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Mission, Anandamayi Ma, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, the Rolling Stones. When these fake random Bauls had nothing to do with these people, only very specific Bauls with names, their names are Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul, and Babu Kishan these are their stories to tell, random Bauls did not have anything to do with this Baul history.
If not for Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul no random pretendian Baul would have anything to appropriated or reason to steal the intellectual property of this lineage. Don't be fooled, stay away from the cult mentality. Hawkers are hawkers and this is what the hawkers do, they sell Baul as a commodity to gain recording contracts, free press, and trips around the world displaying their wares to anybody who will be sucked in.
This lineage has many firsts and lasts regarding Baul, just watch how they copy and try to present themselves as if they are the ones, while they copy every corner of the indigenous Bauls, this lineages already lived lives, it is not a joke, it is puzzle that I have put together, documented and have proof of, there is a difference between appreciation of indigenous Baul and serious appropriation.
These hawkers take every aspect of the lineage Bauls lives and re-display acting as if they were the one reworking the already lived history of this lineage? They tell you, they are masters and they are going to teach you, and act like they know Baul, they do not, they copied it right from this lineage, Babu Kishan's lifes work. Always waiting for a new song, a new word, a new chapter from a book to teach. I documented on fake Baul listing all the chapters in Babu Kishan's fathers book "Baul Philosophy' advertising the titles of the chapters as to what they will be teaching in workshops? You can not even make this up?
First it is about tone and music, even Indian Cinema, Bauls are monks, Bauls are from Turkey, then Buddhism, then Lalon, then Ramakrishna, Anandamayi Ma when they have not done the work, they are copying Babu Kishan's life, they use any idea of the lived history of this lineage, rework it for social media pictures and claim they are legendary Bauls? I have documented everything on the internet presented by these fake pretendian Baul over 20 years, Babu Kishan has documented all the fakery over 60 years.
If Babu Kishan had not written anything over decades about Baul, they would not know anything about Baul, they would not have a story to claim, because their fake Guru copied everything from this lineage and they feel entitled to do the same without the indigenous or ancestral adhikara, (authentic lineage of Baul, entitlements, competence, or authority) to do so, make no mistake the authority of a lineage or sampradaya only lies within the lineage of Baul. There is no other lineage of Baul, Babu Kishan is the first to ever talk about lineage regarding Baul and then every random wandering fake Baul all of sudden has a fake lineage with a fake Baul Guru. Babu Kishan knew these so-called self-titled Baul Guru's he documented who they are and knows their stories of where they came from, their lineage is a fake lineage and it can be proven.
Hawkers have big smiles, trying to recruit others while saying come and join them? When Baul does not collect people, that should tell you enough? Are they fundraising, or asking for donations, those are the Hawkers, they have made foundations copied word for word from our original first Baul foundation?? Hawkers are idea thieves, they are hunters ready to poach whatever they can, trying to sew it all together a new product to sell?
Hawkers change their methods of acting when one idea does not work they change their directions, maybe they will be tantrics promoting Tara Ma one time, the next they are Bhakti Yogis or associated with Ramakrishna or Anandamayi Ma, when only this lineage has lived this history?
Hawker Bauls call themselves Baul Artists one minute and Baul Masters the next and really how would you know, you would not. Hawker Bauls have a new scheme when the last one didn't work, they keep churning out schemes. Fake Bauls are not the only hawkers today, today throughout Indian spirituality there are hawkers with stories that would blow your mind, yet they have nothing to ground their stories in, just a game.
They give flippant advertising stories and one liners bragging about how much they travel? This is not Baul, and not based on any Baul reality, but in social media pictures and the accumulation of like on social media.
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https://mirrorofthesky.blogspot.com/2021/08/in-1970s-babu-kishan-designed-guduri.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2017/04/kichhu-din-mone-mone-kichchu-din-mone.html
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Babu Kishan aka Krishendu Das Baul in 1986 Los Angeles California, USA George Harrison held a a book release party for Babu Kishan's 3th book on Baul, edited by Lila Roy who was Rabindranath Tagore's translator and editor. George Harrison was a good friend of Babu Kishan's along with the sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar.
This is the one and only lineage of Baul that is Vaishnava Sahajiya which is indigenous Bhakti Yoga, going back before Sri Chanitanya. The new pretendian non-indigenous Bauls never ever used Bhakti Yoga or Kirtan, Tantra or Tara Ma as time moves along a new bread of pretendian fake Bauls are "riding on the coattails" of everything, ever song, aspect, of this lineage remaking it to their made up stories, lineages Plagiarizing the intellectual property of this one and only lineage of Baul. Vaishnava Baul Kirtan is very specific and comes only from this pioneering family.
This lineage is the roots of Gosai Das Baul and Dasi Bhakti they are ancient indigenous people who have a right to their own self-determination, it is indigenous fraud to appropriated what they have done, where they have gone and their songs, style of dance, dress, Kirtans and every aspect of their pioneering spirit, taking their names off and proclaiming that self-titled actors are the ones. Fake it til you make and riding on the coattails of this lineage is over, copying from this lineage, this blog is poaching and intellectual property theft.
This is the indigenous ancestral lineage of Sri Nityananda of Ekachakra Birbhum W Bengal, India.
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2018/09/lila-roy-rabindranath-tagores-personal.html
Do not Plagiarize Babu Kishan's aka Krishendu Das Baul lived life stories, or his ancestors songs, kirtans including where they have gone gone, and what he has already done as completed Baul history, his lyrics or lyrics poems of this 'one and only lineage?' Of course it sounds insane that we have to say, but this is reality today. Just because someone has achieved social media Fame does not mean it has been earned through telling the truth. Satya truth is the first tenant of Baul, today sadly people are following fakes who are using Baul to fundraise and collect donations in the name of Baul?
While taking the names of the indigenous Bauls off the story, the fake pretendian so called Bauls are running around the globe creating false narratives that change every time Babu Kishan lets a drop of Baul history out? From youtube videos or from any source it does not matter to thesd fakes they just take, rearrange their style and talking points to align with our blog or websites.
It is a lie to say there are 20,000 Bauls left in Birbhum W Bengal? Absolutely 100% you will be called out and exposed publicly soon. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all of time. Today, you can fool many people as we move deeper into the post truth era and you can do it with no shame. No shame means with no true consciousness.
The Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls of Birbhum W Bengal India are 'indigenous ancestral' Vaishnava Tantric Bhakti yogi's and yogini's in the path of the Avadhuta.
Baul Kirtan and Baul Bhakti Yoga only comes from this lineage, poached from this lineage, poached on steroids over the past 2 decades? Thank God, I haven't released the chapters on 'Baul Bhakti Yoga' because everything Babu Kishan has written over decades and what I have written on this blog has been poached, it is beyond bizarre. Everything I have written on this blog has been poached.
Compare what is here with what is being promoted now?
It is important to understand why Baul is secret, and perhaps I have given too much out, Babu Kishan warned me. I just didn't think this was possible, pretendian Baul actors have no shame in this post truth era. Everywhere they have gone, right down to their contacts has been replicated.
Baul is only synergistic within Hinduism aka Sanatan Dharma, Indian Philosophy, Bhakti, Kirtan Veda and Tantra of Birbhum.
This ancestral lineage are the only Krishna and Dattatreya Sahaja, the only Vaishnava Sahajiya Bauls there is not another lineage or any other Vaishnava Sahajiya Bhakti Yoga and Kirtan Bauls copyright. I write it here and it is poached from here or this lineage?
This lineage is the only Bhakti Yoga, Kirtan Baul path and has only ever been mentioned by Babu Kishan. '
Das Baul and Dasi (Gosia)' regarding Baul only comes from this ancestral lineage of indigenous to Birbhum Bauls, they are near extinction. It is only through this lineage that anybody knows anything about Baul. To make up fake lineages and fake Baul Gurus is seriously messed up.
It has become a fashion for pretendian Bauls to copy 'ride on the coattails of this lineage'. Do not be fooled by fake Bauls, they are great at social media and know how to act they have been doing it for a while now. Their lives, songs, and all the firsts of this lineage have plagiarized for far too long.
This is important to understand, now that in the west Bhakti Yoga has become popular over the past 2 decades in the west and now being advertised that they are teaching Baul Bhakti Yoga and Kirtan that you understand they have no roots in Baul and are Baul actors. They have poached it from Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul blog and websites. One day they are Buddhist, the next they act like Radha, and now they are Krishna, they scoop what they can from the writings of this blog, and Babu Kishan's past work, he knows who they call as their Baul Guru and they are not Baul, they are armed with Fake Baul lineages and fake Baul Guru's, while using the intellectual property of this indigenous Baul lineage.
I have documented Baul for almost 20 years, what has been going on regarding Baul and documented what has been appropriated from this lineage?
The pretendian Bauls have repeated, the intellectual theft of the songs, Kirtans, everything this lineage has accomplished, where they gone and what they have done. Their history repeated, their names taken off, and new fake lineages created, made up fake Baul Gurus and fake lineages even trying to associate themselves with Babu Kishan career in Indian Cinema?
Baul does not collect people.
I know it sounds crazy, however, Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul has been on this path for almost 60 years from inside of India and outside of India most especially in the USA where he taught Bhakti Yoga for decades, where he even started a Baul institution in California back in the 1980's and 1990's only to have it destroyed by his brother.
He has done the work, while others skim everything he has already completed as part of Baul history full and final.
Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul has been on this path for over 60 years as an indigenous Baul from the soul and soul of Birbhum, W Bengal India.
Copyright as told by 'Krishnendu Das Baul' aka 'Babu Kishan' who has preserved Baul for more than 60 years, he was instrumental in pioneering Baul globally, as many first and last in Baul history and her-story. Babu Kishan is the eldest grandchild of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Brajabala Dasi his initiating Guru's and the eldest son of Purna Das Baul and Manju Das the first and only famous Baul singers in India and globally. Before Nabani no Baul ever sang on a stage.
Copyright, no poaching the stories lived by and only as told by Babu Kishan his (Indian Cinema) name, and his birth name as given by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, 'Krishnendu Das Baul' (Gosia Chand). Krishnendu means Krishna's Moon (Chandra or Chand). Baul is indigenous and ancestral to the soul and soil of Birbhum only. We are very serious about the copying and intellectual theft that has been going on for decades regarding Baul, it has become epidemic with some pretendian fake Bauls who are not indigenous to Baul.
There is no such thing as a Baul Master, Baul Artist, Western Baul, Muslim Baul, Bauls of Bangladesh or Fakir Baul. Baul is not from Persian, Uzbekistan or Turkey to say so is 'indigenous identity theft'. The toxic re-twisting, reworking and creating false narratives, fake Baul Guru's and fake pretendian lineages, is indigenous Fraud?
It is completely bizarre how outsiders have used and abused Baul, either for a copycat singing career, because Purna Das Baul was the first Baul who was a famous Baul, to travel the world.
Now fake are fundraising for financial jackpots saying they are going to preserve Baul, build Baul ashrams around the world, when Baul has already been preserved in every way, tradition, dress, instruments, songs, practices.
This lineages already lived Baul histories, completed and final. Baul is complete, Baul does not need fake pretendian Bauls re-walking, bragging, posting pictures as if you are the one who lived the indigenous Baul history, re-working, re-making, copying their already lived history. Baul has been preserved by Babu Kishan over 60 years?
Setting the record straight and reclaiming the history and her-story of Baul is of the utmost importance, because this oldest (13 generations)is the oldest and only ancestral indigenous lineage of 'Das Baul and Dasi' which has a long history of firsts and last regarding Baul history.
Their history and the truth must be told accurately so that their names are not taken off while fake pretendian Bauls claim their legacy and lived lives while deleting their names and making up fake lineages. Some pretendian Bauls are revisiting every step of already lived Baul history and remaking it in their name when they are not even indigenous to Baul, stealing their intellectual property, including their songs, dance, dress, style, where they have gone and where they go as sly copycats waiting for the jackpots to preserve Baul roll in, when Baul has already been preserve by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das.
Only an indigenous Baul can self-determine who Baul is.
This is a tiny taste from Babu Kishan's 4th book on Baul (the other 3 are out of print), to be released this year 2025. This book has over 60 years of experience, research, preservation, first and lasts in lived history of this lineage, in the actual lived lifes of the one and only lineage of the Vaishnava Sahajiya Bauls of Birbhum W Bengal India.
This is from the one and only lineage of Baul (Chand Gosia). This is the historical story lived by the last Authentic indigenous Bauls who lived on earth with fragments of a marginalized people barely able to survive, having to compete with fake pretendian Bauls who come from middle class families? In many ways in reclaiming the indigenous ancestral memories of this lineage provides a great case study in how indigenous sects in India are mistreated and usurped by outsiders who water down and reduce their legacy.
This book is the accurate story of lineage without their names taken off and claimed by outsiders by taking the names off, and making the stories generic and random as if all Bauls lived the stories?
This new book is the story told to me over a 20 year period of listening to Babu Kishan's actual lived stories of who the Bauls are? No more speculation is needed, no more using Baul, it stops here. This is about how this lineage brought Baul out of the villages of Birbhum, introducing and pioneering Baul to all of Bengal, to all of India and into a International Global fame. The names are written in stone, no more randomizing Baul or making Baul generic while pretendian fake Bauls claim this lineage bit by bit, faking Baul, making false associations, the truth must be brought to light. The Pretendian fake Baul have done this by making up fake lineages and fake Baul Guru's.
It is absolutely astounding it has gone on as long as it has over decades?
So famous in fact that Baul aroused and became the focal point of many famed Indian singers, actors, film producers, artists, politicians, Presidents and international stars such as Bob Dylan and The Band, George Harrison, The Rolling Stones, Osho, Anandamayi Ma, Sita RamDas Omkarnath and many others, yet many so-called self-titled experts and talking and making false associations with these people who only associated with this lineage? They read it through Babu Kishan's writings and now have tried to repeat it, what kind of joke is this? It will be qualified in a big way when the book is released.
The strange case of 'fake pretendian Bauls' has been very destruction of the indigenous Bauls, the appropriation and reductionism and watering down of the songs, style, whatever they did and followed them around the world making up fake lineages and fake Baul Guru's, they copied everything, taking their names off and pretending they lived their stories by remaking their stories and copying everything they did and where they went?
Then of course as you can guess Baul became the focal point of books, movies, singer and there is a historical story behind this one and only indigenous ancestral lineage. From Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Brajabala Dasi to Purna Das Baul and Manju Das and finally to their eldest Grandson and eldest son the story of modern Baul and all that Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul brought to Baul.
Baul is complete, the living history has been complete for decades.
There is no need for any random non-indigenous fake pretendian Bauls to steal the indigenous intellectual property of these Baul by coping their style, songs, dance re-working, pretending the fakes are the one who lived the stories, by make fake association as teaching at Universities, attended or were even interested in the Ramakrishna Mission, and are Music composers making lose association with India Cinema Bollywood, when Babu Kishan is the only first and last Baul to have an actual 40 year career in Indian Cinema in all levels of Management and as a Music Composer, Filmmaker? Really trying to fake and cover all your bases to compete with Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan so that you will be recognized in social media as a big self-title Baul Master which you are not and there is no such thing as and when you Guru is a fake Baul Guru and you have made up a lineage which does not exist but copied everything from this lineage. That is indigenous fraud.
This book is about reclaiming Babu Kishan aka Krishendu Das Baul's own history in the recording, preservation, and taking of Baul globally, his name has been completely wiped out by his family and by the pretendian Baul, he is reclaiming his lineage, ancestral memories and all the work he has done regarding Baul, teaching at Universities and the songs of his lineage. He is has preserved and reclaims hisfamily history and her-story so sorely appropriated by fake pretendian Bauls who have taken their names off. This is indigenous identity theft, and looting of the indigenous Bauls through huge fundraising jackpot schemes lying that they are going to preserve Baul while looting this lineage, their songs, dress, style of music, where they go and what they have already done.
It is Indigenous Fraud, when the ones looking for their fundraising jackpots are not Baul? Do not take the names of the Bauls off, it they say Das Baul or Dasi and have made up another Baul lineage, they are fake because there is only ONE Baul lineage, and #2 they have lied, not told the truth.
Included in the book is a critique about what academic scholars have written about Baul and how damaging their speculations are. They do not know, they are not trained in Baul, Baul is Vaishnava first and there is no way a Baul is leather tanner of one generation out of the blue, sure people write all sorts of books, and I have critiqued many of them on lineagebaul.blogspot.com showing why they are not Baul. Why they have no right to self-determine who is Baul because of their speculations and of all the false narratives they have created and they are not indigenous to Baul, their ancestors have not preserved Baul, they do not speak the languages or even know the languages of Baul.
Here is on example:
‘Some believe he was the composer of the well-known song Hṛd Mājhāre Rākhibo Cheṛe Debo Nā, and of Kichu din mone mone, later popularized by the stunning performances of Paban Das Baul and Parvathy Das Baul.’ Lorea
This one is not only insulting, it is insidious, and loudly needs to be called out. These two songs were written by and popularized by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and his son Purna Das Baul, they were stolen from recordings produced by Babu Kishan in the 1970's. They were popularized, composed by this lineage, they belong to the intellectual property of this lineage, used and recorded by many who never gave credit, just taken (stolen) and used for outsiders social media fame? We live in 2025 this is unacceptable today.
The above song were already played on the radio all over Bengal and India. This is indigenous identity theft, indigenous Fraud.
Paban and Parvathy are not Bauls, they are pretending Bauls and Babu Kishan knows their history. Parvathy stole the song right off Babu Kishan’s youtube channel, we have analytics that will show how many times she listened over and over only to see it uploaded with the wrong poets name on Roshik who is a nickname of a poet from this lineage.
The poet of those 2 songs was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul “Mirror of the Sky” and we can prove it without a shadow of doubt. These songs were already popular, written by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and made popular by his son when they were commercially produced by Babu Kishan heard on the radio all the time. These songs were copied directly off this lineage's recordings as are many songs. These songs are the intellectual property of this lineage, they were taken and re-recorded while pretendian Bauls sang them for their own commercial success and even using the wrong poets name to mislead or worse no poets name.
This is Baul today, lying, cheating and acting like a Baul with the soul of thieves.
Yes, Bauls do care who the poets are and now your going to find out, just how much an indigenous ancestral Baul cares. Do not poach from this blog and then repeat the stories as if you know, because I will tell you, these stories will be told very soon.
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New Book - to be released in 2025
Historical Autobiography of Baul
The Rasa Lila Mystics
Reclaiming the Indigenous Ancestral Heritage of the
Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls of Birbhum
BAUL TANTRA- MANTRA- GOPI YANTRA
The path of the Avadhuta, Krishna Sahaja and Dattatreya Sahaja
by Trishula S Das as told by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das (Chand Gosia) Das Baul
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We have careful coded terms never mentioned before, the copying of this Guru shishy parampara sampradaya aka parampara has gone too far, and how would you know, you would not know, that is why this book is being released to set the record straight and clean up the false narratives. We have asked nicely stating copyrighted and no poaching please, but you think you are so smart?
Note: watch every Baul will become an Avadhuta Baul, there is a story behind this, and nobody should self-title themselves as such, or as Khyapa Baba or Khyapa Baul the name the villagers of Birbhum gave Nabani Das Khyapa Baul?
Whatever Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul writes, talks about as the eldest Baul of his generation as a born in Birbhum indigenous Baul has been copied.
For example: teaching at Universities, he has been teaching at universities around the world for decades, preserving Baul for over 60 years because he is qualified as a guest lecturer, why would anybody re-make his history as an advertisement, teaching false narratives?
Re-recording Baul kirtans and Baul songs even his own poetry for youtube display, never credit given just brazen intellectual property theftm they do not even know they are using KD Babu Kishan tunes.
The use of Baul Akhara ( never used by any fake Bauls before), the Baul dumi never used by any Bauls before reading it here, Baul kirtan never ever even mentioned now advertised? Daily new random parroting from this blog re-worked and name dropped as if they are the ones, you can not even make this up anymore. What is written in this blog, name dropped, re-worked as if they fake (nakal), shilpi (actor) Bauls are the ones?
'Baul and Tantra' Tarapith and Kankali Tala and Baul Avadhuta are only in relation to Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, the stage acting of dancing with Ektara, Baya (drum tied around the waist) and Nuppor (ankle bells encased in metal) are all Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, this will come out, you can not "fake it til you make it" using the indigenous intellectual property of this lineage one and only parampara and lie to people that you have a Baul Guru and are from a made up Baul lineage, truth will be told loudly.
Baul and Gaudiya Vaishnavism, (this is only this lineages history, it is not related to your fake self-titled Das Baul Guru, this is their ancestral history as ancestors of Nityananda (Chandra Gosia) of Ekachakra Birbhum W Bengal. Don't worry we will be letting people know, talking and qualifying who you really are, you are even trying to make associations with KD Babu Kishans 40 years career in Indian Cinema?
Every aspect this lineage has already lived has been re-make through inauthentic associations, including KD Babu Kishan's 12 years as a monk at the Ramakrishna Mission this is a very specific Baul history, it was only Babu Kishan who told about Baul Tattva's otherwise no outsiders knew about them.
This lineage specifically is only associated with Gaudiya Vaishnavism through there ancestry and they have been major fundraisers for decades for both the Ramakrishna Mission and Gaudiya Vaishnavism.
This is only this lineages history and her-story and they do not need you to take their names off, making Baul generic, random a no name type of Baul so you can claim it was you. You know it was not, yet upi pick the bones of this lineage for social media fake fame.
Taking every aspect of their already lived lives and history picked dry, remade into youtube video's with one liners, adding carefully curated marketing pictures to act as if they are the one.
You are not from Baul, you are not indigenous to Birbhum, you come from completely different states with completely different ancestors, Baul is based on indigenous ancestry, you and your fake Baul Guru are not from Bribhum and certainly not from Baul. There is no lineage of parampara it is made up.
They are using Baul to fundraise for jackpots, to collect people, travel the world, while riding on the coattails of this lineage of indigenous ancestral Baul of 13 generations and many more generations before.
The story of this lineage is one of a systemic intellectual indigenous property theft, that has transpired since the 1970s copied or appropriated by Pretendain Fake Bauls, the shilpi Bauls who had the gaul to call a over 90 year old Baul Samrat (Padma Shree) Purna Das Baul a shilpi Baul?
"The reclamation of indigenous ancestral Baul aka Vayu Tula, V is B in vernacular Birbhum Bengali.
Baul is 2 Sanskrit works not one, distinctions matter and the self-determination of any indigenous people is that of the indigenous people.
Vayu Tula = Bayu Tula = Batula = Baula = Baul using only a Baul technique (tantra) from this one and only Vaishnava Sahajiya parampara called Rasa Tattva (copy right, please do not poach as told by KD Babu Kishan) for this lineage only.'
Baul is not afflicted by the wind, now scholars are calling Baul vatula which is a one word Ayurvedic term for Vata derrangement, a medical condition, this is not Baul.
Distinctions matter, and that is why the correct preservation of Baul is must. No one should be fundraising to preserve Baul, when Baul has been preserved by KD Babu Kishan over the past more than 60 years.
Nobody should be going around playing pretend anymore, riding on the coattails of this lineage.
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Baul Tantra is Tantra Mantra Gopi Yantra (Shakti Sadhana) the Path of the Baul Avadhuta Vishnu Shiva and Brahma including agamic texts and the historical Mahabharata and Ramayan.
The word "Darshana" literally means "vision," "insight," or "philosophical viewpoint." It refers to the various schools of thought, perspectives, or philosophical systems that aim to understand the nature of reality, the universe, and human existence.
There are six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, also known as the "Shad Darshanas" (षड दर्शन), which are:
1. Nyaya (न्याय)
2. Vaisheshika (वैशेषिक)
3. Samkhya (सांख्य)
4. Yoga (योग)
5. Mimamsa (मीमांसा)
6. Vedanta (वेदान्त)
These Darshanas offer distinct perspectives on the nature of reality, the self, and the ultimate reality, and continue to influence Indian thought and culture to this day.
In Sanskrit, "Purva Paksha" (पूर्व पक्ष) literally means "prior examination" or "preliminary investigation." In the context of Indian philosophy, particularly in Hinduism and Buddhism, Purva Paksha refers to:
1. Critique of opposing views: A methodological approach where one critically examines and challenges the philosophical views of others, often to establish the validity of one's own position.
2. Initial inquiry or investigation: A preliminary examination or inquiry into a subject or philosophical system, aimed at understanding its fundamental principles, strengths, and weaknesses.
In traditional Indian philosophical debates, Purva Paksha involves:
- A thorough study of the opposing views
- Identification of potential flaws or weaknesses
- Formulation of counterarguments
- Presentation of one's own philosophical position
By engaging in Purva Paksha, philosophers and scholars aim to:
- Clarify their own understanding of the subject
- Strengthen their arguments by anticipating counterarguments
- Develop a more nuanced and informed perspective
Purva Paksha is an essential aspect of Indian philosophical inquiry, encouraging critical thinking, intellectual humility, and a deeper understanding of complex ideas."
Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul is qualified and has used these techniques for decades all across India with his travels as a Music Composer for many temples and Guru's across India. This is and has been Babu Kishan's life of culture, languages and different sects all over India, he has always been curious as to what is going on. He did some of this work with a Supreme Court of Calcutta and Bombay judge who was also, a life long mentor of his.
Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul (Gosia Chand) is from the soul and soil of Birbhum an indigenous Baul who is one of the only known and last disciples of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, he is the eldest of his generation, as the only and first Baul educated in Baul and in the University academic system who has preserved Baul over 60 years.
The only Baul educated in the academic system withe a BA and MA from Calcutta University.
He is the first and last Baul to attend full time live in 12 years in the Ramakrishna Mission as a monk. Over his career of 40 years in Indian Cinema he was the expert in the folk who categorized all of music of India for all the largest Music Companies of India.
An inborn and educated Music Composer with the grace of Saraswati's aspect Nila Sarawati (Tara Ma) he has been gifted, and then educated in Classical, Folk, Spiritual (Bhajans, Kirtans, Baul) in music and poetic lyrics and has a huge body of successful music, his music is heard in temples all over India. Babu Kishan is educated in both Indian Classical, Folk, Kirtan, Bhajans, Mantra shastra in many languages including as an expert to the highest level in Oral Sanskrit and Classical Sanskrit he is one of the only people that Ravindra Jain allowed to compose music for him in Sanskrit.
He can speak all of the Vaishnava Baul languages, Oral Sanskrit with manuscripts, Vernacular Birbhum Bengali, Baul Sandhya Bhasha he knows the allegory, metaphors, riddles and paradox of Baul, and lastly but not least Braja Bhasha the language of the land of Krishna. He has been trained in grammar and outside of grammar in Sanskrit and Indian Classical Music.
The reason I am telling you this, is because Babu Kishan has been mute about his own life, while others have used his story taken Babu Kishan's name off and tried to rework his own lived stories as if they lived his life, retracing every accomplishment, every step acting as if they are him? Most people in Bengal today do not even know Babu Kishan is Krishendu Das, he was different from his brothers, they did not associate with the same people. His Calcutta family never talks about him, they don't even know or care about him, all they care about is what he can do for them, and how much money he can give and give to them. It is very complicated and not easy to digest story, a story of an indigenous world colliding with a modern world, and the driving forces and 2 sides of the coin of jealousy, indigenous fraud and indigenous identity theft blanketed in a complicated many stories with stories.
This is the indigenous Das Baul and Dasi one and only lineage regarding Baul of the Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls of Birbhum and make no mistake there is only one lineage. All pretendian Bauls who have made up fake lineages or their self-titled Baul Guru's based on 1 or 3 generations are called Pretendian Bauls or the 'fake it til you make it; Bauls. I know it may be hard to believe how a whole industry of fake Bauls came to be, but they did it happened, you could say they followed this lineage, however, it is more sinister than just following, in some cases it has been a carefully crafted indigenous identity theft of stealing their songs, style, stories, where they went and what they accomplished right down to dressing exactly like Purna Das Baul. Copying Nabani Das Baul songs, dance and style. Writing books, recording albums, claiming they are Baul when they are not. Claiming awards, recording contracts and even claiming they are Music Composers with nothing to prove they are.
Some have become social media influencers outright lying while riding on the 'coattails of this lineage"and all of Babu Kishan's life's work pretending they are associated with every aspect of Babu Kishan's life works, teaching at Universities because he is qualified with a Masters degree and has done that since the 1970's.
Pretending they are associated with the Ramakrishna Mission, and taking pictures in every area and association that Babu Kishan has made all over the world and all over India. All of sudden every aspect of Babu Kishan's life including Indian Cinema is being replicated. Pictures taken as if they are the one who knew Anandamayi Ma, went to the Ramakrishna Mission, had a career in Bollywood when they did not, they did not do the work? They are acting reworking the history and attributing it to their fake Baul lineage and fake Baul Guru, to obtain awards, free travel, funding and donations.
Insidiously, in a gradual, subtle way, with harmful effects trying to fundraise in the name of Baul to preserve Baul. I can't say it loudly enough, Baul has been preserved by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul over more than 60 years. The reason is has been kept secret is exactly these unscrupulous fakes
I am not making this up, I have proof and have documented every drop of fakery over the past almost 20 years.
The Gaslighting is over, the 'indigenous Baul identity theft' is over, along with indigenous fraud to gain funds, donations, awards, prestige, grants you name it they have tried every which way, even making up fake Baul Guru and fake Baul lineages.
Indigenous identity theft, indigenous fraud regarding the proliferation of pretendian (fake) Bauls, non-indigenous, non-ancestral Bauls, who have been gaslighting Indian people and the international community using Baul claiming awards and fishing for fundraising jackpots has got to come to an end.
We are not talking about the simple Baul singers in Birbhum, they should be encouraged to sing the songs of this lineage.
We are talking about commercial social media, social influencers, fake pretendian Bauls who are not from any indigenous or ancestral Bauls, many are from middle class families, they have carefully crafted their costumes with gimmicks of dreadlocks to attract unsuspecting fool, who think oh wow how exotic, not exotic at all and Baul Women NEVER EVER had dreadlocks.
Her-story regarding Baul is complete, there are no more Women Bauls, this is a game of self-promotion, based on this one and only lineage whose names are taken off and replaced by fake lineages and fake Baul Guru's.
I will repeat this many times because it must be understood, BAUL fraud and Baul indigenous identity theft to deceive the public, by creating stunts, eye-catching novelty attractions, schemes, trick, creating loss leader and shtick are over. The fetishization of ancient indigenous Baul with no regard to nuances, language and the importance of the truth of this ancient lineage from the soul and soil of Birbhum W Bengal India.
The pretndian Bauls act is more sinister, we are talking about very specific, strategic, deliberate, organized Baul actors who are more interested in a claiming Baul via fake Baul Guru's and fake lineages for fundraising and other purposes including international travel while using everything from this lineage. They are deliberate in their indigenous fraud which is carefully crafted, and copied in step by step way of copying every step this lineage has ever taken as part of an already completed Baul history or her-story. They make wild claims and claim titles this lineage has lived. Workshops have been advertised listing all the chapters in Purna Das Baul book Baul Philosophy?
They feel entitled to copy songs right off Babu Kishan youtube channel even his own poetry of which his father Purna Das Baul made famous? However, they take the name off and insinuate that the dance style, the songs have no poets and come from their fake Guru's ashram, are they stupid, did they think no one would know or call them out? Babu Kishan has been busy with life, he is retiring and this will be his career now flushing out all the pretendian Bauls, self-titled experts on Baul, and academic scholars who have used Baul wrongly as a career and are now trying to self-determine who is Baul.
Over 80% of Purna Das Bauls most famous music and songs were composed, recorded and marketing by Babu Kishan on all the Big Music labels through Babu Kishan's work with the record companies over the years, he never received a thank you or a rupee from his father. Babu Kishan more than anyone knows who the poets are, what song is a Baul song and what is not, he knows who was a Baul and who was not, because he knew all of them, where they were from and their stories.
So next time a fake pretendian Baul from a middle class family decides to steal (mis-appropriate) a Baul song, or Baul Kirtan directly from this lineage and re-record it for social media fame, remember it is a crime to steal others intellectual property. It is indigenous fraud.
And stop telling Babu Kishan's stories that only are told by him. Reading our blogs and websites reworking this lineage history as if you are the one, you are not. Baul history is complete and you are committing indigenous fraud while 'fake it' and 'riding on the coattails of this lineage'
There is no such thing as Muslim Baul, Fakir Baul that is the biggest indigenous fraud ever perpetuated for the sake of fundraising millions of dollars in the name of Baul.
An excerpt from the forth coming book.
Copyright all rights reserved, we had to do this early because of all the indigenous Fraud and Indigenous Identity theft! Do NOT be a slippery snake and copy, reprint, re-say as if you knew the stories about Nabani Das Khyapa Baul on youtube when we know you have taken stories that have been written here and only said and known by Babu Kishan, do not copy Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul life and retrace it, rework it, pretending that you actually went to University, went to the Ramakrishna Mission or worked in Indian Cinema?
Pretendian Bauls:
Fraud and identity theft are erasing indigenous Baul, by replacing indigenous Baul?
The Pretendians is a documentary made in Canada that gives a clear picture of the seriousness of the subject of pretendian you are something that you are not. “When people steal from our culture they end up distorting our culture, they turn it into something we do not even recognize, erasing us by replacing us.” This has happened to Baul, they have been erased by fake Bauls who have distorted Baul which is an indigenous tradition, lineage based on ancestry.
https://www.knowledge.ca/program/pretendians
https://globalnews.ca/news/9450313/pretendians-canada-indigenous-ancestry/
The wokism of the world has allowed people to self-identify as cats, and dogs? People self identify as yogis, music composers which is the PHD of music, and every indigenous group in the world. The problem with self-identification with indigenous Baul or perhaps any indigenous group has taken away the self-determination and opportunities of these marginalized groups. When the indigenous people are not the representatives of their ancient ancestry and they are replaced by outsiders who merely copy their dress, style, songs and narratives, the survival of these groups is extinguished because the essence is not present.
Moving beyond self-identification
"While the revelation of Bourassa’s identity fraud brought tremendous hurt and feelings of betrayal to the Métis and broader Indigenous community, we did not anticipate our complaint would transform identity politics.”
In Canada, universities, governments and other agencies are now implementing ancestry-verification policies. Individuals are required to show proof of membership, connection or citizenship to an Indigenous community when applying for opportunities reserved for Indigenous Peoples.’
Those opportunities reserved for indigenous people include grants, funding, awards, prestige and opportunities specifically set aside to help marginalized communities who are indigenous.
“There are two kinds of fraudsters, according to Teillet: fabricators who invent Indigenous identities whole cloth and embellishers who exaggerate some perceived connection.
Some embellishers bolster their claims using the results of DNA tests showing small percentages of Indigenous heritage. Others exploit unverified family stories about a distant Indigenous relative. Whatever kind of identity fraud they’re engaging in, they generally lie to get ahead professionally.
Maybe they want an Indigenous award or grant or acceptance into networks that are closed to them.
Such fraudsters exploit affirmative action initiatives or diversity, equity and inclusion protections,” says Teillet.
As an Indigenous applicant, the person could be accepted into law or medical school when they’d otherwise be rejected. And sometimes, the motivation is even simpler: “They want something that makes them unique and different, and this gives them a chance to say they’re special,” Teillet says.
https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/gill-sisters-pretendian-fraud/
“Their adoption of Indigenous identities allows them access to jobs, money, and opportunities that are set aside for Indigenous people. Pretendians raise issues with respect to employment/labour law, charter, and privacy issues. It also calls into question recent Supreme Court of Canada case law. These identity issues – whether it is an individual right to identify as Indigenous, whether the Indigenous nation has any say, whether there are any necessary requirements to claim an Indigenous identity – are very much in the spotlight as writers, filmmakers, lawyers, and academics are exposed in the press for having little or no right to the Indigenous identities they have been claiming. Some have made these dubious claims for decades and have built fame, prestige, and careers on them.”
“What a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive — that’s what happens. They get tangled up in their own stories,” said Teillet, who is the great-grandniece of famed Metis leader Louis Riel. Teillet’s report examined the harm caused by Indigenous identity fraud, outlined red flags for spotting potential deceit and suggested measures to prevent it. It came in the wake of a series of controversies over claims of Indigenous identity by prominent members of Canadian academic, literary and entertainment circles in recent years.” Canadian Lawyer Jean Teillet LLP
Seriously and it may sound petty but there is pretendian Baul and their social media minions who have been telling Babu Kishan's personal lived stories about Nabani and name dropping Bob Dylans name as if they actually know, they don't, telling stories from this blog that have only he has ever been told here. This is identity theft and intellectual property theft, copying his life, where he goes, what he has lived bit by bit, copying Purna Das Baul and Nabani Das Baul and making up fake Baul Guru's and Fake Baul lineages (all can be proved and is documented). Just because it looks exotic does not mean it is, the more exotic a person looks the more fake they usually are, it is costume, if you are interested in Baul you have to be smarter than social media charm.
Unfortunately this is a real thing regarding the new phenomenon
of social media faked famed pretendian Baul actors,
sometimes called Baul artists or Baul Masters?
Appreciation and Appropriation
are 2 completely different things.
https://indiafolkheritageofbengal.weebly.com/cultural-misappropriation.html
Babu Kishan as an indigenous Baul, was born into Nabani Das Khyapa Bauls lap @ Suri, Birbhum, W Bengal India over 60 years ago. He lived Baul as an indigenous Baul from birth and under the care of his grandparents, his Gurus the last authentic Baul Guru's to live on earth. From birth in the villages of Birbhum they trained him, he learned and practiced Baul, it was not easy.
He had to do the work hard 24/7 at the Ramakrishna Mission for 12 years and believe it or not that is Baul history because he is the first Baul to be a Monk in the Ramakrishna Mission. At Calcutta University and in Indian Cinema his history is that of the first Baul to work or attend University or actually have a career in Indian Cinema in Calcutta and Bombay for 40 years. He had to created the international road copied by all fake Bauls. He is the master mind in recording Baul music and composing most of the modern and ancient tunes one hears on the radio, to copy his work is indigenous intellectual and identity theft. Let's be clear who is talking about Baul is fake today.
They will be called out, just as they felt it is their right to steal and copy this lineage while lying and making up fake lineages and fake Baul Guru's it is Babu Kishan's write to tell the truth and stop this looting of his lineage and the work he has done over 6 decades.
Babu Kishan created Baul fusion 2 decades before others are claiming while he preserved Baul over 60 years by recording, researching, learning, practicing without the financial help or help of anybody, he is a self propelled, self made person. He changed his name from Krishnendu Das Baul as to not ride on his past coattails in Calcutta and completely remade himself under the name Babu Kishan.
What this lineage has already completed its Baul history is completed. There is no need to create new Baul history or her-story, it is done. If you are not educated in authentic Baul you should not be teaching Baul spreading false narratives, it is impossible to teach Baul when one is not from Baul, this has been proven over and over and documented as well.
Baul does not need any self-created self-titled fake Baul to rework re-act and re-trace where this lineage has gone and what they already have accomplished. Baul is extinct and all of the above is indigenous fraud. This lineages accomplishments belong to them, re-tracing, and competing with an already lived and completed Baul history or her-story is indigenous identity theft.
Stop looting of this lineages songs, style, this whole lineage for your selfish reason to travel history the world, collect donations, to be a Baba or Ma making your story up based on this lineage and the insidious part is making up fake Baul Guru's and fake lineages while canceling the names of the songs, dance, style you have appropriated great story by a bold faced lie. Do not give any fund in the name of preserving Baul, because Baul is already preserved by Babu Kishan over 60 years in every way possible? If you use songs, style or stories from this lineage it is a copyright infringement and after decades of fakery, it will not be ignored anymore.
Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das had to work, he raised a family, while doing all this, while fundraising for others.
My suggestion to this new bread of social media fake pretendian Bauls who are riding on 'the coattails of this lineage' in every way, faking using this lineages songs, style, for fame, international travel, jackpot fundraising is Get a job in real life, faking Baul is not a job. If Baul were so easy they authentic real Bauls would have survived, however, the fake Bauls came out of the woodwork and took Baul out of the hands of the indigenous Baul watering it down and reducing it so badly that as all indigenous people, they had to get jobs to survive. Nobody can live off of Baul anymore except fake Bauls who are mere actors, not even close to being authentic Bauls.
Work like everybody else who is indigenous today, instead of stop using Baul taking and diluting Indigenous Baul down further acting as if you are a Baul? You are not indigenous to Baul, it is not your ancestry, that is 100% for sure and provable. The indigenous Bauls have had to compete for decades against 'pretendian fake Bauls' or as one person called, "the fake it til you make it" Bauls?
Could they ever have realized the repercussions of how they marginalized the authentic indigenous Bauls, who for centuries have dedicated their lives to preserve Baul so that they have a drop?
Babu Kishan had to study and work on a career as a Music Composer, filmmaker, as a Hindu, had to get a job, develop a career, he had to work while pioneering Baul worldwide, and keeping up on his Baul sadhana. He is not privileged he paid his own way through school, his father and mother never gave him a rupee, he gave them thousands of lacs of rupee's he composed music for them constantly, wrote, promoted and did everything, so it is a more than a little disconcerting when he see's his life re-enacted before him right down to meeting his contacts and going exactly to everywhere he has gone?
Perhaps the pretendians, instead of faking Baul and dressing in a costume of attraction with long dreadlocks or Jata as a way to attract people who think oh cool, how exotic? I have to laugh and good on them now a whole new bunch of Women Bauls have grown dreadlocks Jata and are in competition, watering down that gimmicky shtick or comic routine.
These pretendian Baul could actually get a job, rather than just copying the actual work Babu Kishan has done while working in a career and many jobs while preserving his ancestral lineage over the decades. You can not make this up anymore and names will be mentioned.
Baul was meant for the villagers of Birbhum, for the indigenous people of the land, it is their birthright. All the work Babu Kishan did preserving Baul, recording Baul, teaching in Cultural programs was not meant to be stolen by pretendian fake Bauls, who have gaslighted the world faking Baul.
Babu Kishan preserved Baul for over 60 years to lift Baul up, he pioneered Baul outside of India to educate the world about Baul since the 1970's.
Time had changed and Baul had to survive outside the villages, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was the first Baul ever to sing on stages all over India as part of the freedom movement, he sang for Nehru as an opening act to bring people to Nehru's speeches. He was the last authentic Baul Guru along with his wife Brajabala Dasi.
There are no other lineages or Baul Guru's, Babu Kishan calls his fb Baul Guru in honour of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, we laugh because people think he is talking about himself. He is perhaps the first and last of the modern Baul Guru's who has preserved Baul over 60 years, he is not looking for students, he has never felt that there is no body today that could do the level of sadhana he has done, people are just not prepared today, they talk a great talk, but when it comes down to it, the way he had to train is just too hard for todays world.
Purna Das Baul is the first and last famous highly awards with (Baul Samrat by a President of India, and many Indian president awards, a Padma Shri and many more awards as the first and last Baul singer and Indian Vocalist to introduce Baul to the all of Bengal, all of India and worldwide. That history is complete, perhaps go and get a job, Babu Kishan did as an indigeous Baul, he had to survive, all indigenous Bauls had to survive.
Purna Das Baul (Baul Samarat and Padma Shri) has had his lived life copied, songs, dress, dance style, where he went and what he has accomplished right down to the bone of everything in his life? This is indigenous identity theft, copied by non-indigenous actor pretedian Bauls.
These indigenous frauds and this indigenous identity theft have never been called out which has allowed new modern boldness in the indigenous intellectual and identity theft by Pretendian Bauls to attain recording contracts, social media fame, international travel the world and gain prestige, collect donation, awards, and for fundraising jackpots?
Not one of these pretendian Bauls are even from Baul, they have created fake Baul Gurus and fake Baul lineages?
They are copycats , a few have created fake disciples who are more viral in their indigenous fraud.
The academic sholars have overstated their importance and tried to self-determine who Baul is, when the United Nations Rights on indigenous self-determination is clearly done only by the indigenous people. Academics have alot at stake, my God, grants, fame, books and careers based on indigenous Baul.
Through copy and paste, creating false narratives such as Baul does not care who the poets are, Baul does not come from families, Baul is from Turkey, Uzbekistan, or Persian and the biggest scam ever Baul is Musllim or Fakir Baul?
Babu Kishan has qualified many academics and it always comes down to their funding, their way, their reputation they are the authority, it always about them and their careers?t Blind and toxic full of constant speculations.
Question; who has a right to Indigenous Wisdom, the indigenous people, fake pretendian Baul orthodox fundamental Vaishnava preachers and reformers or Academic Scholars?
Who has a right to indigenous wisdom of the Bauls, who is the authority. I am almost certain one of the reason academics has listed Baul as degraded and illiterate, is because of all the speculations and liberties they have taken in the self-determination with the possibility they may have to change their books and instead of correcting their false narratives they cover it up and shut up the one indigenous academic who actually knows and is the lineage holder of authentic Baul by indigenous rights and ancestral rights. Baul is listed as illiterates repeated over and over which we know now is completely wrong, when Baul speaks and writes in 4 ways Sanskrit, vernacular Birbhum dialect, Sandhya Bhasha and Braja Bhasha?
The colonial Academia system of making self-determinations is corrupt leftist woke and regarding Indology must change, and needs to go through the Indian Philosophical systems of rigorous debate, not a copy and paste citation only from one book to another of already wrong things written about Baul?
Baul is indigenous to only the land today called Birbhum the land of Rarh (red soil) as non-English speakers.
Babu Kishan is the first English speaker and the eldest of his generation he is the only disciple of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul from his family left.
Academics is a colonial system in that was designed so that academics could rule over indigenous people and tell them who they were. They were entitled to prestige and acted as superior calling Bauls illiterate, degraded, low caste, lower rungs of society. This is the worst most insidious disrespectful characterization of any indigenous people. First you have to know who is a Baul and who is not, many of the outsiders have included any random wandering person as a Baul 100% Baul is not any random wandering person, or person who has no where to go so they get called a Baul. A huge education must take place on who and what is a Baul before any random pretendian people further destroy and water down Baul, Pretendian Bauls are included in the category.These kind of academic have no right of self-determine who Baul is, they do not speak the languages, they have never met an authentic Baul how could they non exist today and probably for the past at least 3 or 4 decades. Who has beeb interviewed is vague, meaning they interviewing random wandering people who are pretend fake Bauls who will tell you anything for a few rupee's. Those are not Bauls, who qualified them as Bauls, do you know the language, anybody in Birbhum will tell you anything, nobody has a clue, not the fake Bauls and not even the academics from there.
Yet, many of these academic scholars go on field trips thinking that makes them an expert, they loot the indigenous Bauls of their songs and like do gooders archive them in the British library, not knowing those are not all Baul songs from this lineage Babu Kishan has the majority, why because he archived them so you couldn't get them. Baul does not need any colonial colonization of their material anymore. It does not need any self-titled experts on Baul or fake pretendian Bauls anymore pissing on every corner marking your territory of every aspect of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan lived work that, trying to fake your way into history or should I say her-story which was complete before they were born.
This is the epitome of indigenous identity theft, yes it sounds harsh and it is, this is about a Cultural Genocide and continued indigenous Fraud, especially by making up fake Baul Guru's and fake Baul lineages. This is a serious matter and serious lie gaslighting foreigners and Indians alike.
The indigenous villagers of Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism) of Birbhum were connected to this one and only lineage of Baul (Das Baul and Dasi (Chandra Gosia). Without the villagers there would be no Baul, and without the SEVA of the Bauls there would be no villagers. The Bauls were healers, teachers (not preachers) and when the Bauls entered the villages of Birbhum they sang the Hare Krishna Mahamantra to announce their arrival, as a wake up call, wake up, wake up we are here to teach, heal and serve.
Bauls touched the villagers feet not the other way around? They fed people, taught people they came and went unattached just like the wind.
Baul indigenous identity theft, indigenous fraud.
This is a huge topic and one that should have been presented decades ago. However, Baul, the Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls of Birbhum has been marginalized as an ancestral indigenous people.
Something to think about the next time you give donations or assist with fundraising jackpots to preserve Baul by pretendian Bauls, the intent of this book is so that you are not caught off guard by fakes, however, they are tricky and have already read and copied every aspect replicating Baul songs styles, where they went and even what they have achieved as one off in the past 60 years, including trying to attach themselves to Babu Kishan's 40 years career in Indian Cinema, he did work, it is insidious that any fake pretendian Baul pretends they are in Indian Cinema because they created a wrong depiction of Baul in the village of Bengal as a youtube video, is that a joke or what? More like indigenous identity theft, it is common and as has gone on for decades. What makes it different now is that they are trying to fundraise for financial jackpots to preserve Baul when Babu Kishan has already preserved Baul over 6 decades? There are so many cheaters, liars and pretendian fakes out there and it our job to make sure no one is caught in the fakery net.
Baul lineage is never based on 2 or 3 generations based on a poet?
Baul has been preserved already by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul over 60 years.
Babu Kishan's mission and his birthright is to stop indigenous fraud and intellectual property theft of their indigenous songs, style, history, copying and reworking everything this lineage has already lived, creating false narratives as to who these small sect of sweet indigenous people were.?
Baul history is complete, it is insidious how some pretendian Bauls are re-tracking everything this lineage has already lived and taking their names off making Baul random and claiming or making like they are the ones? It is obvious to those that know, but to the people who do not know anything about Baul especially foreigners they achieve a short term social media fame a gain of donations, based on copying everything from this one and only lineage of Das Baul and Dasi. This is indigenous fraud because they act innocent, however, are very organized in their lies with a ambition to attain fundraising jackpots, recording contracts, they use techniques or lies of fake Baul Guru's and fake Baul lineages and unless you were indigenous to Baul, you would not know, you do not speak the languages of Baul or know who the poets are so it is easy for these pretendian fake Bauls to lie.
This lineage has pioneered Baul, recorded Baul songs and have achieved great heights regarding Baul. and gained many awards that rightly so only belong to the indigenous Bauls.
This lineage has accomplished and achieved great fame worldwide, this lineage has already 'been there, done that.' as part of their lived Baul history. remaking already lived history and presenting yourself as if you actually did the work.
Babu Kishan taught at Universities around the world as a representative of Calcutta University, as a cultural representative, he went to University and did the work with a BA and a MA, he was a paid lecturer? This is Baul history, he is the first and only Baul ever to have done this. Yet, this has been copied for a by donation person who is not educated, what would be the point other than trying to re-make Babu Kishan's history and then they taught false narratives. I document everything.
He attended the Ramakrishna Mission for 12 years as part of Baul history and the only Baul to have ever attended University and attended the Ramakrishna Mission. This is Baul history, he is the first Baul and last to attend Ramakrishna Mission or to be associated with the Ramakrishna Mission as his family used to fundraise for decades for them. There is no need for a fake pretendian Baul to copy everything Babu Kishan has completed as part of a first in Baul, Baul is extinct. What is the deal, and trying to pretend they are part of Indian Cinema aka Bollywood for making a youtube video, this is toxic.
Babu Kishan knew Anandamayi Ma and she loved this lineage from Nabani to Purna Das Baul to Babu Kishan that is why Babu Kishan talks about her, his family was always special guest singers and friends at her ashrams around India,.Ma loved their singing.
Babu Kishan composed Music for all the temples in India, that is why he traveled to all the temples in India as a representative of Baul and as a Music Composer, that is Baul history, no Bauls did that.
Back in the day he did not take pictures of his travels it wasn't a thing, today meme of suggested association with Indian Cinema and places does not mean the person had anything to do with Baul, Baul Artist, Baul Master is not Baul, spreading false narratives about who is Baul when you are not even qualified to determine who is Baul or if their Baul Guru was a Baul is not Baul.
There is a real history regarding Bollywood 'Indian Cinema' and Baul and it starts with Babu Kishan to this date he is the only Baul who actually had any association and worked in Indian Cinema for over 40 years. He hasn't even opened an IBdM account, yet some fake pretendian Bauls are pretending, making false associations because they made a youtube videos, this is carefully thought out and crafted?
I know this sounds insane, but what has been going on, must be called out for the sake of the reclamation of authentic indigenous history of Baul.
One clue, if you see dreadlocks, only Nabani Das Khyapa Baul regarding Baul had jata or dreadlocks, because he lived in nature, where you would go for months and years with the conveniences of modern life.
No Baul women ever wore dreadlocks, this has been carefully constructed to gain attention, Babu can tell in one second who is real and who is fake because he has spent 60 of qualifying Guru's all over India. Dreadlocks today are a game of attracting people. It is part of a costume. This is a trick that works well with foreigners who think oh cool, but now many westerners have taken up dreadlocks too. They are a hairstyles, they are used today in the spiritual Guru business of India to attract, that is it, it does not mean spirituality and certainly does not mean Baul?
If you see the colorful patch work dress, it was designed by Babu Kishan in the 1970's and all fake Bauls thought it was ok to copy everything this lineage has accomplished or done including what other list as Baul Guru's who are 100% not, he copied the songs, dance and Das Baul and even Babu Kishan's dress, he traveled going to places this lineage had contact with and now his fake pretendian Baul disciple does the same thing, lying all the way, now trying to collect fundraising jackpots to preserve Baul when Baul is already preserved, this is not a joke? This is considered indigenous identity theft and indigenous fraud.
All pretendian Bauls copied the 'colourful patch work dress ' guduri that Babu Kishan designed in the 1970's for his famous one and only Baul singer Purna Das Baul (a one off) that all pretendian Fake Baul copied, singing his songs, dressing as him and self-titling themselves as DAS BAUL to attract people and gain recording contracts or trying to attract foreigners and to travel the world?
Baul artists, Baul masters are not Baul, they are not indigenous to Baul and using Baul, they are Baul actors fishing for donations, awards, and fundraising jackpots.
All of the fake and false narratives must be qualified and cleared up, because some of these fakes are fundraising for jackpots, trying to act as authority on Baul when every single youtube video they have done is full of half truths and outright false narratives.
Some creating false narratives and fake thesis have absconded with millions of dollars in financial jackpots collected from the United Nations when they have lied and nobody said anything, perhaps because nobody knows anything in fact about Baul, 100% BAUL IS NOT MUSLIM, ISLAMIC, FAKIR ECT?
This has gone on for far too long. The only people that can self-determine an indigenous group or people are the indigenous people themselves, they lived it, they have at least 13 generations documented. Never should fake pretendian Bauls even be entertained they have already committed indigenous fraud, enough is enough. No academic scholars should be entertained as even knowledgeable or have the self-determining power to tell who is Baul, they all have been wrong.
The United Nations Rights of Indigenous People states that an indigenous person has the right to SELF-DETERMINATION. Time has changed.
Stop the generic randomizing of Baul making Baul generic, creating fake Baul lineages and fake Baul Guru's.
Bauls have names, this is Babu Kishan's aka Krishnendu Das (Baul's) words. Do not use or repeat on youtube channels as if you actually know, telling the stories taken from out blogs, talking about Nabani and teaching at Tagore's University, this is only told by Babu Kishan. You acted like it was your wisdom while trying to sell to your audience, come and join us, there are 20.000 Bauls left in Bengal, so that you can fundraise in the name of Baul, your video is deceptive and you have committed intellectual property theft and indigenous fraud. This lineage only is Vaishnava Sahajiya and Das Baul and Dasi, this indigenous fraud using everything from this lineage, their stories while taking the names of the people who lived these Baul lives. You fake Baul Guru and fake lineage will be called out and so will you. Enjoy it while you can!
Saying there are 20,000 Bauls left in Bengal is a lie and indigenous fraud.
Baul has been used by non-indigenous Baul for fake fundraising jackpots, this is indigenous fraud and identity theft.
Baul has been preserved over 60 years by Babu Kishan, there is no need to preserve Baul especially by a fake pretendian actor, or so-called self-titles master Baul, this can all be proven without a shadow of doubt, the wrong people have been representing Baul.
There is no such thing as a Baul Master, there is only Baul Guru and many who have used this title over the past decades are not Baul Guru's, but copycats, riders on the coattails of this one and only lineage or Baul Guru Shishya Parampara Sampradaya, Guru to student in oral Sanskrit with manuscripts. Bauls absolutely know who the poets are.
Here are a few experts from Babu Kishan's new book to be released soon! (copyright) 2025
Perspective
Reclaiming Baul heritage and already lived Baul history.
The way forward for the Bauls as far as the legacy and Cultural Heritage, this only pioneering lineage has brought Baul to all of Bengal and worldwide. The need now is for accurate preservation for future generations. The lies, indigenous fraud and identity theft full of false narratives cease and desist.
Each moving parts regarding self-titled pretendian Bauls, and academic scholars needs to be qualified accurately both in the western academic sense of exegesis and in the Indian philosophical systems of Purva Paksha and within Mimamsa Philosophy and the person qualifying must be an expert and an indigenous ancestral Baul, and be qualified academically in both Indian Music, Classical and oral Sanskrit, in Bengali vernacular Birbhum dialect of Bengali including the Bauls own secret coded language of Sandhya Bhasha laced with Baul metaphors, allegory, riddle and paradox and in Braja Bhasha the language of the Krishna.
One must be qualified by questions as to their nature of understanding what and who is Baul and not just by reading this book, there are many secrets that are not told in this book and that Babu Kishan holds close to his chest. Babu Kishan has been trained and is an expert in all of Indian music including Baul, folk, Kirtan, bhajan, Indian Cinema, he knows who the poets are and who is lying. He has preserved Baul and written books on Baul over a 60 years period at the very least.
One must first of all be indigenous to the land of Birbhum, born there, lived there and understand all the different sects of the region. Bauls are not from middle class families from other parts of India? The days of random people claiming they are Baul based on one generation or 2 generations based on a single Vaishnava or poet is over.
The Cultural performance Bauls do play a role in the heritage of Bengal and especially Birbhum W Bengal. The people who are using Baul lying and creating false narratives need to be qualified and weeded out. There is no place for false narratives or liars regarding Baul. There is no place for the ‘fake it til you make it’ or the Ma or Baba business has no place in Baul today. The so-called, self-titled Bauls however, do need a deep education, if they do not know, stop lying and making it up.
The following is presented in the book. I still have editing to do, but this is a preview of what is to come.
History of Pretendian Baul since the 1970s.
This lineage is based on powerful ancestral Sanskrit poets sadhaka’s (male) and sadhika’s (females). A Guru Shishya (student) parampara sampradaya lineage based on indigenous (of the land) soul and soil of Birbhum W Bengal India. As an indigenous people of Hinduism or Sanatan Dharma Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul Gosia Chand Das Baul and Dasi has been passed on through an ancestral lineage a succession or uninterrupted line, string, thread of Baul (Vayu Tula) wisdom and knowledge from one Guru who are family related, lineage means ancestral line, of great, great, great, 13 documented generations of grandparent in the oral tradition and because it is an indigenous oral tradition it is difficult to trace back to the beginning of the story.
However, Bauls are indigenous in every way, they are not tribals but indigenous to Hinduism the eternal path of natural Sahaja spirituality of India. The stories and techniques (tantra’s) trace back to the historical itihas of Mahabharata and Ramayana which is dated using modern multiple techniques thousands of years before western academics have a concept of. Western academics have only a concept western civilization and western time.
Bauls use sampradaya in a sahaja way, natural and spontaneous, not in an orthodox way. Baul is family ancestry based through a family line (parampara) through a spiritual Kula sect (sampradaya) in Akhara’s, not ashrams. They are Tantric Bhakti Spiritual Baul Siddhas adepts.
This lineage when they started their pioneering cultural programs outside of India brought many musicians who were not Baul along with them. In their early travels pioneering Cultural programs to Europe and USA these musicians were not Baul. However, the strangest thing happened when they arrived back to Calcutta, the musicians decided to self-title themselves as Das Baul and attract western tourists, and anybody who would listened, this became their chance as self-titled Bauls to take a share or even compete with the fame that of Purna Das Bauls on their western travels.
However, Purna Das Baul was the first famed Indian Vocalist to sing all across the world as this lineage friend Ravi Shankar was the first sitarist to travel the world, Purna Das Baul was the first Indian singer starting in the 1940's as the first Indian vocalist to represent India worldwide. Manju Das (Purna Das Baul's) wife was the first Indian woman vocalist.
All pretendian Baul followed Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan proceeding with copying their songs, style, where they went, and even today reworking their stories to fit Babu Kishan's already accomplished lived life, with pretendian they are teaching at University and the Ramakrishna Mission, yet Babu Kishan is the only one who has taught at Universities around the world because first he is an indigenous Baul and is qualifed with a BA and MA from Calcutta University and secondly he attended the Ramakrishna Mission for 12 years, this is his history, he lectured and taught at the British library for decaded and now we see this has been copied by a fake pretendian Baul with a fake pretendian Baul Guru and fake Lineage. This must be called out because it is indigenous fraud.
The pretendian Bauls copied Purna Das Baul and then Babu Kishan’s pioneering spirit of modern Baul, everything was copied and watered down, this was their chance, they just had to copy everything this lineage did and people believed them. This book is about throwing the watered down versions and lies as to who Baul is and the indigenous Baul reclaiming their history and stories and right of self-determination.
It became popular and a good begging business in Birbhum and even Calcutta to pose as Bauls sing a few songs and make friends with foreigners, these are the ‘fake it til you make it’ pretendian Bauls.
Today many people ask Babu Kishan, is that person a Baul they told me this and that? Babu Kishan always says, no they are not Bauls but posing as Baul. He knows their stories and knows who they are. Many of the pretendian Bauls self-titled themselves as Das Baul and told many westerners and Indians that they were Baul. They proceeded to make up stories using many of this lineage's contacts and where they had been followed acting as if they were Baul?
Many pretendian Bauls followed this lineage to the west, they came first as musicians, but decided Baul was a good business? They started to tell people they were Bauls and attracting people to Baul. Unfortunately, no one outside has ever qualified them or should I say knows how to know who is Baul and who is not, there has been so many lies over decades and false narratives printed and spoken. However 40 years later a whole new group of 'pretendian Bauls' is now trying their hat at being a Baul singer, or now a Baba or Ma. To be a ancestral indigenous Baul is not easy or simple, being a Baul is way more than any PHD? The pretendian Bauls knew no one could qualify them, and went along their way ‘riding on the coattails’ of this one and only indigenous Baul?
Seriously you can not make this up, and why would we?
Baul history and her-story were complete at the very least a few decades ago.
Upon arrival home in the 1970’s the (musicians) who accompanied this lineage of Baul and were invited on these pioneering trips were musicians (not Bauls). However, many started to call or self-title themselves as Baul, dressing as Purna Das Baul, and singing all of the music that Babu Kishan composed for his father Purna Das Baul in the 1970's. Babu Kishan composed over 80% of Purna Das Bauls most famous Baul songs.
These Baul songs produced, composed and recorded by Babu Kishan were all famous and heard constantly on the radio. Purna Das Baul was a super duper famous Baul singer and Babu Kishan worked with a dogged determination to gain the love of his father.
Back in the day when there were no computers, his contacts were made through the mail at least he could write in English, no other Bauls wrote or spoke English which made it difficult for indigenous Baul to climb out of the village of Birbhum, it made it easy picking for the more tricky desperate pretendian Bauls to take advantage of the fame this lineage had.
Ashok Fakir came with Purna Das Baul and Lakshman Das Baul on their first trip to America and disappeared and never went back to India he self-titled himself a Baul and went on and had a family in California before crossing the border into Canada, he was not a Baul as he was an English translator at the American Embassy in Calcutta and on this first trip acted as manager and translator for the Bauls first trip to America in 1967.
Babu Kishan was in touch with Ashok Fakirs family in California in 2009 his x wife said she had all sorts of photos of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Babu Kishan was excited thinking he could reclaim some of his family photos, when in telephone conversations she said, Ashok Fakir was Baul and Babu Kishan told her no he was not, she never talked to him again. This is the way of the world.
Everything was done snail mail as telephone was too expensive, although when Babu Kishan moved to Bombay and worked for CBS India he had more contact directly with many people especially Bob Dylan who he tried to bring to India, however, Bob Dylan has never been to India, his brothers NDTV interview was a complete manipulation and lie? Babu Kishan is the person who released all of Bob Dylan’s music in India and Asia, he used to talk to Bob Dylan all the time from Bombay and in America. I have no idea why anybody is saying or claiming Baul and Bob Dylan without mentioning Babu Kishan. After all, they were not one-time friends. Babu Kishan toured with Dylan and The Band all over the USA in 1985.
His Dad initially met Bob Dylan in 1967 and had no long friendship with him, Lakshman Das Baul only met him in 1967 and never saw him again? Such as people who are considered as knowledge about Baul are generalists and will repeat the same generic garbage because they are writing sensation book always leaning to sexual secrets but are just random books or generalizations such as Baul even associate with Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg, no random Baul did not, there are specific people with specific stories, random generic Baul and using their lived stories taking their names off is insidious.
One such book and a copy and pasted author as an authority on Baul is the Path of the Mystic Lover, it is a no name book created to attract attention, I mean who wouldn’t be interested in a Mystic Lover, Bhaskar Bhattacharyya I went through this book, it leans towards sexuality which is a drop of the Bauls life. Don’t waste your money there are only drops of truth but no real connection to what Baul means or what Baul is really all about, it is generic hearsay, I have seen many quotes in academic papers, which Babu Kishan calls copy and paste.
Babu Kishan employed his own inborn musical genius, talent, emotion, creativity and hard work into composing Baul music, tunes and lyrics for Purna Das Baul’s and these songs become his fathers most famous songs. All of these songs were copied by pretendian Bauls as if they were their own and had a right to take and use anything they wanted just because they self-titled themselves as Baul? The insidious part is they were appropriated by fake pretendian Bauls, and re-recorded as if the songs, tunes and lyrics belonged to them, this can be proven and must be qualified because this has gone on for too long?.
Nabani Das Bauls poetry and even Babu Kishan’s own poetry and the songs of this lineage and their ancestors, have been re-recorded, even today with no integrity but self entitlement by pretendian Bauls who have taken Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan’s name off and this lineages names off claiming the songs as their own from their own made up fake Baul Guru’s.
Now these pretendian Baul are self-titled as Baul Masters, there is no such thing as a Baul Master, there never has been, there is only Baul Guru and Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is the only example of Baul Guru, he is the last authentic Baul Guru.
The pretendian Baul took credit by omitting this lineage's names, and replacing then by singing this lineages songs all recorded and sang on Bengali radio, copying this lineaeages style of dance and their dress including the colorful patch work dress designed by Babu Kishan?
The pretendian Bauls presented themselves as Baul, to make recording contracts, to travel the world while, 'RIDING ON THE COATTAILS' OF THIS ONE AND ONLY LINEAGE OF BAUL' promoting ‘fake Sri Sri Sri Baul Guru’s’ Baul does not over state anything?
Making their stories up has led to utter chaos and confusion of who Baul is, including Baul does not come from families, Baul is from Persian, Uzbekistan, or Turkey pathetically. They recorded their songs including many that were Nabani Das Khyapa Baul songs and Babu Kishan's own poetry, copied directly off their youtube channels and previously recorded records of which over 80% of his fathers Purna Das Baul songs were recorded and paid for by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das, won't this be called intellectual property theft?
Babu Kishan created Baul Fusion in the 1970's many recordings with the top musicians and singers in the world and top musicians in Indian Cinema, however, 2 decades after he created Baul fusion, pretend Bauls are claiming they created Baul fusion? Seriously, this is deception and intellectual property theft, he helped many of these pretendian Bauls yet, it is so easy for them to claim all the work that Babu Kishan already completed? He helped extensively many of these now lauded fake Baul Gurus, he knows their whole story that their pretendian Baul students are lying about. Babu Kishan knows them all, he knows all the fakery and the tricks. He reluctantly is speaking out only because it has gone too far.
Today each new pretendian Baul has a new so-called Baul Guru. Much discernment and education is necessary. Baul Guru’s are very specific and none of the names they mention are actual Baul Guru’s. People who were not from Baul.
Their audacity is truly astounding. I guess it is similar to what is going on in the west: all the yoga teachers are mere fitness teachers? This truly is Kali Yuga, the time period we live in now, that is considered the post truth era, what is real is seen as fake, and what is fake is seen as real.
The pretendian or fake Baul followed everything this lineage had already completed, but because they were and are desperate to survive, or be an authority on Baul, perhaps a Baba or Maa, they took this lineage's name off, following them around the world for decades. Babu Kishan has observed this for over 60 years as he created the template for modern Baul, through composing music and recording the songs, designing the colorful patchwork dress, and teaching at Universities. However, he did not expect so many random people to appropriate Baul, and feel entitled to their intellectual property too?
Many of the pretendian Bauls have come and gone and are all documented liars and fakes, sorry to say this. I have kept transcripts of their narratives over an 18 year period documenting all their inconsistencies. Babu Kishan helped many of these pretendian Bauls freely, because that is what a Baul does, this is what Nabani and Brajabala taught Babu to help all, feed all, love all. He just did not expect they would delete the indigenous Baul and replace them with lies and fake Baul Gurus.
What is happening to the indigenous Bauls is also happening to the sacred land of Birbhum W Bengal.
The land is always connected to indigenous people, Baul is part of the land in Birbhum, when the roots of the land are cut, so are the roots of the Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum.
When the roots are cut the tree of Baul and the roots of the land change and eventually die, with the marginalization of Baul and the usurping of their history, stories and lived lives these replacement 'fake pretendian Baul have cheated' indigenous Baul of their livelihoods of the indigenous right of self-determination.
Indigenous fraud is perpetuated by a replacement theory, basically faking Baul to attain recording contracts, fame, donations, fundraising jackpots, awards, international travel and assistance designed to support indigenous Baul, but usurped by outsiders, not born of the land.
These pretendians have created huge false narratives, saying come and join us, when Baul does not collect people. They have relentlessly lied saying their are 20,000 Bauls left in Bengal that need to be saved, give us your donations and financial support? Do NOT, this will all be made clear and revealed.
These false narratives, speculation and claims have reached an international audience and have done grave damage to Baul. The Pretendian Baul and academic scholars have pulled this fakery off for decades, they have GASLIGHTED the entire world. It is ridiculous, I believe in radical transparency, and thus, radical transparency.
(Bauls) Vayu Tula, known as the Vaishnava (Gosia Chand) Sahajiya Tantric Bauls of Birbhum W Bengal India. The only Bauls who introduced Baul to all of Bengal, all of India and pioneered Baul Worldwide. The copycat, fake pretendian Baul, gaslighting Baul time is up.
There have been too many false narratives, generalization, speculations and outright lies. Too many pretendian know it alls, self-titled pretendians so called experts and Baul Masters who make it up and fake it as they go?
Bauls have specific names, the poets have specific names and these names have been washed away, some pretendians will tell you Baul does not care who the poets are? This is the first sign that the pretendian fake Baul, is a fake Baul and using Baul.
They lie to be included in Baul, they make up fake lineages and fake Baul Gurus. The biggest thing they do is make Baul generic and random, by saying Baul received a Padma Shri, you can not claim that too, that Baul has a name Purna Das Baul and he is an indigenous Baul., act out everything from this lineage and take their names off. This is a serious indigenous fraud. It will all be qualified after the book is released and when Babu Kishan starts his talking, nothing will be left unqualified and revealed.
Over the past 100's years Bengal has suffered many horror shows through their turbulent history of colonization by Islamists, British, the traumatic partition of Bengal into East Pakistan, famines, war, communism and poverty. War that created Bangladesh for Muslims, however, they are now flowing over the borders into Birbhum which was a Hindu land full of brilliant Hindu culture and a history going back to the Mahabharata War. Over hundreds of years land of Birbhum has changed once again. The Bauls since the beginning of time were the indigenous Hindu's of the land, the people who kept Dharma alive in Birbhum West Bengal India.
Slowly dharma and the indigenous Bauls have been washed away. I have heard stories of how Muslims bury their dead on land owner’s land and if not caught in time the Muslims claim the land.
Muslims build on land owned by others with no permission. The land is now filled with ghosts, instead of purified by the Bauls who upheld Hindu dharma.
Some are trying to change this, but there needs to be a big shift, time will tell. Bengal and Birbhum the Shakti Bhakti Baul place of the world will soon be a Muslim place.
Over the past 20 years a different generation of pretendian Baul who call themselves 'Baul artists' and 'Baul Masters' ?? are coming from middle class families, adding to more reductionism and watering down of indigenous Baul down to oblivion.
These pretendian Bauls are taking credit for everything already accomplished and lived by the indigenous Bauls? Gaslighting all that listen to their videos worming their way into already lived Baul history, trying to remake lived Baul history? They are busy fundraising, obtaining awards that belong by indigenous Bauls and traveling around the world posing as Baul?
Baul are indigenous people who are grossly misunderstood and marginalized. The indigenous nature of the Bauls provides the indigenous Bauls with indigenous rights of self-determination and these rights should only remain in their hands.
This one and only lineage did not spend at least 13 generations recorded and many generations before to have fake pretendian Baul actors come along and take their intellectual property, style, dress , Das Baul and Dasi and songs when they are not one even one generation making up fake Baul Gurus, who copied this whole lineage including their songs, dress and Nabani style, and exactly where they went, meeting with their contacts while stealing the intellectual property of this lineage?
Babu Kishan’s dedication is a prayer and a promise he made in the 1960’s to his Grandparents (Gurus) Nabani and Brajabala and he has been faithful to the promise to preserve accurately who and what Baul is because after some time the Baul ancestors will come back to earth. Nabani was always against fake people, fake Bauls and people who used what did not belong to them. He was authentic and rare and his wish given to Krishnendu aka Babu Kishan was to tell it as it is, be always truthful, never lie even if you lose everything. This book is about correcting so many untruths about this one and only lineage of Baul.
The pretendians will say, ‘Baul was associated with this lineages personal stories and the names of people this lineage only associated with’ or worse stealing songs from Babu Kishan’ youtube channel or in the past copying everything directly from (1990s to 2006) first ever Baul website BabuKishan.com or Babu Kishan’s blog. Using what they read on our blogs and website then name dropping the stories that only Babu Kishan has told and can only be known through Babu Kishan?
Taking the names off of the people who lived the stories using those names as if they are experts, making the names and stories random as if they knew? No you did not, you cheated and read our websites and acted on youtube as if you knew, name dropping. This is insidious and who does this is not Baul and never will be, they are using Baul to travel the world and collect people's awards trying to compete with the names and stories from this lineage for personal fame and fundraising?
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2022/06/how-writers-create-false-narratives.html
It has been known that some Bauls even tracked down a Rolling Stones to show they have tea with a Rolling Stone when it is only this lineage and mostly Babu Kishan who had anything to do with the Rolling Stones?
Purna Das Baul in 1971 with his family in London flew to Nice France and then recorded at Mick Jagger's home. Babu Kishan first met Mic Jaggar when he was about 9 or 10, but decades later through his other musician friendships met them many times, jammed with them and was instrumental in bringing them to Bombay in 2004. These are specific stories, not a story that any Pretendian Baul has anything to do with?
FYI, for your information, right up front; it was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who first Baul ever to sing on stages while doing his part in the freedom fighting of an independent India under Nehru he was his opening act to draw people to his speeches around India to draw people to Nehru's speeches as the state of Bengals ‘pied piper’ Baul singer. No Bauls ever sang on stages until Nabani then Purna Das Baul. Nabani could draw millions of people.
If you are bragging about the singing on the biggest stages you sang on, fyi it is only this lineage who created singing on stages, it is part of their history, the pretendian Bauls merely copied. This lineage sang on the biggest stages as main attractions.
If you are traveling the world, or even bragging about teaching at Universities you are copying Babu Kishan. He is the first and last Baul to teach at Universities starting in the late 1970’s and only because he went to a University? He is the first and only qualified Baul to teach Baul, Indian Music, Sanskrit and Indian Philosophy at the University level as a lineage indigenous ancestral Baul.
As an Indian Philosopher, Musicologist and Music Composer by profession, this is intellectual property theft, copying everything that Babu Kishan already lived and completed in Baul history and her-story including the women of his lineage such as Brajabala Dasi, Radharani Dasi and his mother Manju who was the only Women Baul to travel the world, she was an accomplished Indian Singer by profession and the first Indian female vocalist to travel the world as a Baul singer.
Baul is complete, indigenous Baul does not need any fakes or made up pretendian Baul actors creating false narratives.
Before Babu Kishan it was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who taught for Rabindranath Tagore at his University in Shantiniketan, yet western Bauls write Nabani was illiterate, this is what happens when you take 2nd hand information and brag about it in books. Nabani was an oral Sanskrit scholar with many sanskrit manuscripts he associated with some of the most intelligent Sanskritists of his time, he was poet who knew, oral Sanskrit with manuscripts, vernacular Birbhum Bengali, Sandhya Bhasha and Baraja Bhasha that is not illiterate. He could converse in many Indian languages as he traveled the continent. The academic scholars are sometimes classically western University trained that does not make one an expert, these people can mostly only speak English and they have the gaul to call Nabani illiterate?
They have no right to speak about Baul or self-determine who indigenous Baul is?, Yet pretendian Bauls and western academic scholars are fundraising in the name of Baul? Armed with a fake lineage of people who are not even from Birbhum?
The first thing you have to know is who is an authentic indigenous Baul and who is using Baul? This book hopes to help those who are interested be able to qualify who is Baul and who is not from an academic viewpoint of an indigenous Baul who actually did the work, instead of someone posing as Baul giving out false narratives that have reduced and watered down the authentic indigenous ancestral Baul.
I laugh, but not really as the pretendian Bauls have already copied Baul by reading our websites and blogs, poaching stories from our blog that nobody has except Babu Kishan knows and repeating these stories on their youtube channels, as if they know, this is insidious and another type of fraud that has gone on for too long. We live in a ‘post-truth era’.
This is the biggest danger to all indigenous worldwide.
I can not understand why some pretendian Bauls copy everything Babu Kishan has accomplished or written over 6 decades, taking each and everything he has done, even trying to have association with their friends, trying to cover everything and everywhere he has gone, and accomplished, even opening an Indian Cinema account on IMDB, when Babu Kishan is the only Baul to have a 40 year successful career in Indian Cinema at all the highest levels in music, film and management?
The only reason I can assume is they are trying to re-make or compete with already accomplished Baul history. Awards regarding Baul should only go to the indigenous Bauls not to outsiders posing as Baul. There is just something no right with what has gone on certainly over the past ten years, however, going over the history of Baul over the past few decades when the fakery began, and it just became more obviously viral.
Baul has nothing to do with Indian Cinema that was Babu Kishan’s career, especially when someone is pretending to be a Baul? I have watched for 18 years how some try to mark their territory, like a dog peeing marking their territory to cover every corner of Babu Kishan’s life, while copying his father and grandfather both a one time historical Baul. Copying Purna Das Baul and Nabani Das Khyapa Baul life, songs, style and their history. Their history is one time thing. However, when this turns into intellectual property theft, and lies, it becomes insidious and this must all be called out and qualified.
If you are using the indigenous title, Das Baul or Dasi in regards to Baul aka The Vaishnava Sahajiya Bauls of Birbhum the original and only lineage of Baul either you or your fake Guru lied to you. 100% they are not Baul based on a one generation poet, you have to have at least 4 or more generations of Baul at the very least. Satya or truth talking is the first tenant of Baul.
This lineage has brought Baul out of the villages of Birbhum, to all of Bengal, to all of India and then worldwide starting over 100 years ago in recent history. This book will explain, indigenous proof of how Baul was usurped right underneath them, and today hardly anyone knows who Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul or who Krishnendu Das Baul aka Babu Kishan is because their names have been deleted or merely used on youtube to overstate how much you name drop, when we know it was copied off our blogs and websites?
This lineage has never followed others, others have followed them, it used to be Ok, however, we know that indigenous people only have the right to self-determine who they are, it is no longer ok and the first tenant of Baul is Satya truth, tell the truth, be honest.
Indian Indigenous Fraud and Indigenous Identity Theft within India
Resources:
India has a rich diversity of indigenous communities, including various Hindu sects. While there isn't a single, centralized authority specifically for reporting indigenous Hindu sect impersonation, there are some organizations and resources that can help:
# Organizations
1. National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC): Although primarily focused on Scheduled Castes, the NCSC can address issues related to indigenous Hindu sects.
2. National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST): This commission works to protect the rights of Scheduled Tribes, including indigenous Hindu sects.
3. Ministry of Tribal Affairs: This government ministry focuses on the welfare of tribal communities, including indigenous Hindu sects.
# Reporting Mechanisms
1. Cyber Crime Reporting Portal: You can report online impersonation and fraud related to indigenous Hindu sects through this portal.
2. National Cyber Security Helpline: This helpline provides assistance with cyber security-related issues, including online impersonation.
# Hindu Organizations
1. Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha: This organization represents Hindu interests and can provide guidance on addressing impersonation of indigenous Hindu sects.
2. Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP): The VHP works to promote Hindu values and can offer support in addressing issues related to indigenous Hindu sects.
# Legal Recourse
1. Indian Penal Code (IPC): Section 419 of the IPC deals with cheating by impersonation, which can be applied in cases of online impersonation.
2. Information Technology Act, 2000: This act addresses cyber crimes, including online impersonation and fraud.
If you're concerned about online impersonation or fraud related to indigenous Hindu sects, consider reaching out to these organizations or reporting mechanisms for guidance and support.
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https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2018/02/generic-bauls-were-never-associated.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2017/05/nobody-in-india-or-outside-would-know.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2011/10/these-4-songs-are-written-by-nabani-das.html
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https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2018/09/baba-allauddin-khan-and-nabani-das.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-repost-and-update-from-2011-babu.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2018/09/women-baul-pioneer-manju-das-baul-baul.html
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https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2021/05/cultural-mis-appropriation-indigenous.html
https://mirrorofthesky.blogspot.com/2021/08/copy-right-2010-2040-no-poaching.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2024/08/mystic-baul-tantra-tantra-mantra-gopi.html
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https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2012/04/samarat-purna-das-baul-with-sitaramdas.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2017/04/kichhu-din-mone-mone-kichchu-din-mone.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2012/08/old-photos-of-baul-saint-nabani-das.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2012/04/kd-babukishan-osho-bauls-of-bengal.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2012/04/baul-history.html
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https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2012/01/joydev-mela-cradle-of-baul-history-and.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2011/11/legendary-manju-das-baul-singing.html
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https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2011/08/dotara-was-used-for-first-time-as-baul.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2011/09/beautiful-radharani-dasi-baul-and-her.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2011/08/dotara-was-used-for-first-time-as-baul.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2011/08/hansraj-1976-film-of-life-of-purna-das.html
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Ektara Foundation was registered in Mumbai India in 2007
We have been busy with life, we have not raised any money for this foundation, although over more that for 60 years Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul has preserved Baul in every way. At this point we have just finished our book and publish it this year. Once that is done we will be more present to do the things Babu Kishan has lived a whole life to present and do regarding Baul. I suppose in some ways we have had to watch an utter disaster regarding Baul and fake Bauls to happen to truly understand the necessity to preserve Baul accurately and now reclaim his indigenous ancestral and the 6 decades he has done preserving and educating the world on indigenous Baul.
created in 2007 our vision has changed:
https://ektarabaul.blogspot.com/2010/12/project-to-preserve-bauls-of-bengal.html
https://ektarabaul.blogspot.com/2011/02/bauls-originate-in-west-bengal-india.html
Today 2025 we are getting closer;
Ektara Foundation
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https://indiafolkheritageofbengal.weebly.com/tagore--lineage-baul.html
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