Babu Kishan has been a: Cultural Representative of India for 40 years, as the one and only Baul Cultural Ambassadors (first and last) with his father Purna Das Baul and mother Manju Dasi, this is a one time recognition for Baul. It can not be reproduced and used by any cosplayer Bauls, neither can there ever be another Purna Das Baul, Baul this story as a one and oly is complete, there are no more 'firsts and lasts claims, Purna Das Baul, Nabani Das Baul and KD Babu Kishan all sang singular all over India and on the stages of Calcutta, why would anybody maks such a claim unless they are shadow printing this lineage right down to the bones..
This lineage started their travels outside India in the 1950s traveling worldwide as a representative of 'India'. With the Sangeet Natak Akademi "Indian National Academy of Music Dance and Drama" & ICCR "Indian Council of Cultural Relations" Using the proper Visas as representatives as Cultural representatives of India.
Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan his Indian Cinema name): Master of Indian Music, Pandit, Indian Music, Indian Folk, Calcutta Indian Cinema, Mumbai's Bollywood, Music Director Music Composer, Music Producer, Creator of Baul Fusion, Multi-Instrumental playing 15 or more instruments. Released over 1000 albums, Produced over 60 albums, '150 Musical Scores for Indian Cinema' Master of Indian Classical, Baul, Bhajan, Kirtan, chant Master Baul Kirtan, East and West Fusion
An Award winning Music Composer and Film maker. As an 11 year old he was awarded, "The youngest Music and Film Director in Bengal" in 1978 in the 1980's he was highly awarded as a Music Composer in Bengal. He went on to receive a 2007 award for his contribution to Bollywood, A lifetime Achievement Award from Bollywood Buddy. Babu then known as Krishnendu Das composed all of his famous fathers music and those albums were the most successful of Purna Das Bauls career.
Nobody can be or replace Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul or KD Babu Kishan, no you can not replace them by erasing them. No you can not be the new Purna Das Baul or Baul Samrat the title given to him by the President of India. These 3 are the last of the indigneous Bauls with all the fists and last in ancient and modern Baul. They are the last Baul is no more and no cosplaying pretendian social media influencer who has relentlessly poaching, and twisted this lineage with false narratives can not be even Baul. The fist tenant of Baul, is to tell the truth claiming you are the next Purna Das Baul (a 93 year old) legend of historical Baul is a crime.
No you can not be Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan his Bollywood name) or shadow footprint him by opening up an IMBD account by pretending you are academic and posing as if you actually know Baul, while teaching garbage completely wrong things about Baul, again this can be proven. No you can not claim through a picture series presenting yourself as a Guru claim the one and only history of Ramakrishna and Baul either that only belongs and is Babu Kishan's story to tell as he was a monk in the Ramakrishna Mission for 12 years. First you have to stop shadow footprinting this lineage in every aspect of their lived life. Baul is not Folk Music, only Babu Kishan is the associated with Folk Music as he was the leading expert in Folk Music in his early years, by education, composition and he categorized the folk music of India for all the large Music Companies in Bombay. Baul Fusion was created only by Babu Kishan, he is the only Baul associated with composing music for all the legends of India.
He is the only Baul to be an academic with a BA and MA from Calcutta University that is why he taught at Univerisities all over India and World Wide sine the 1970s mainly 1980s he did cultrual programs teaching Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul, yes Bhakti Yoga, Kirtan, Indian Philosophy, Baul Philsophy, the 108 tattvas of Baul (thank Ma he did not release them because they would have been poached to) only a few were released in Purna Das Baul's book 2004 Baul Philsophy. They were completely looted, poached and used by unscrupulous pretendian cosplayer Baul as if they came from their fake lineage which is a shadow footprint of this lienage. They fakes taught and repeat the Baul is of 4 or 5 types Aul Sai, Dervish, Fakir and Muslim Baul how pathically stupid teaching false narratives, there is a story behind this, I will keep it for later. I tend to give out too much as Babu Kishan has warned me, because he did the same with his website the first ever Baul wesbsite 1990s -2006 which was copied by the millions and repeated even though his American webmaster posted some things that were not accurate. You can not make this up anymore, we have all the evidence of this indigenous intellectual draining, looting, poaching and shadow foot printing (copying) of everything, everywhere that this lineages lived lives have been stolen and repeated.
When the 3 books are released we will start exposing this insideous shadowing this lineages lived lives called shadow footprinting and cultural appropriation not especially by westerners but by people not indigneous to Birbhum let alone Baul.
A True Pioneer of World Music and Cultural Diplomacy, a 13 generation pioneer of modern Baul a born Tantric Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul
Born on the soil of Birbhum into the lap of his Guru Nabani Das Khyapa Baul -the last Baul Avadhut and Baul Guru with 12 years at the Ramakrishna Mission as a monk, BA MA Calcutta Univeristy. Official Baul Ambassador for decades. He did not shadow print he is the original first and last in Baul History. His legacy, history has been stolen, in a systemic shadow printing of his lived life just as his father Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul, and his grandfather (his Diksha Guru) Baul Avadhut has been poached along with his story, songs, style, instruments. Enough is enough of the intellectual indigenous identity cultrual theft.
The Composer Behind the Legend
Beyond his work as an independent artist, (Babu Kishan tknown professionally in Bombay) and Krishnendu Das in Calcutta film and Music Industry )composed over 80% of the music for his father, Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul. Those recordings became the most critically and commercially successful albums of Purna Das Baul's career and they were copied and re-recorded with no credit by pretenian, cosplayers, called the fake it til you make it Bauls that arrived as refugees from Bangladesh. This is part of the reclamation of Baul, correcting these wrongs that haved done with the looting, poaching of Baul and who really is Baul.
You cannot replace a lifetime of primary achievement by creating a fake IMDB profile, or posing as an academic, or teaching distorted fabrications about a sacred indigenous science the has always been held secret within this ancestral lineage. The historical record is permanent, verifiable, and absolute.
Archival Summary & Credentials
Titles & Honors: Pandit, Master of Indian Music, Award-Winning Music Composer & Producer.
Early Recognition: Awarded "Youngest Music and Film Director in Bengal" at age 11 (1978); widely decorated across Bengal through the 1980s; received the Bollywood Buddy Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) for his contributions to Indian Cinema.
Instrumental & Vocal Mastery: Multi-instrumentalist playing over 15 traditional and modern instruments; Master of Indian Classical, Baul, Bhajan, Kirtan, Baul-Kirtan, and East-West Fusion.
Discography & Filmography: Released over 1,000 albums, produced over 60 albums, and composed more than 150 film scores for Indian Cinema.
Preserving Baul for over 60 years by Krishnendu Das Baul, researching and Pioneering global Baul culture without the internet was a monumental task. Long before Facebook or social media existed, our family dedicated over a century of hard work to bringing the sacred Baul tradition from the villages of Suri, Birbhum, West Bengal, to the world stage. Before us, the global public did not know who or what a Baul was. We carry an unbroken ancestral lineage tracing back thousands of years—acting as village teachers, gurus, and spiritual standard-bearers long before newspapers existed. We are 13 generations. We have been looted, poached, and copied to the point of a Cultural Genocide of Baul.
Exposing the Opportunistic Claimants: The Theft of an Indigenous LegacyIt is astonishing that "pretendian" cosplayers—operating as self-titled "Baul Artists" or "Baul Masters"—attempt to claim they brought Baul to the West.
These digital shadow-footprinters are not Bauls. Never in history has an indigenous tradition faced such persistent intellectual poaching. Since the 1970s, and particularly following the massive multi-million-dollar UNESCO Baul cultural heist of 2004–2005, external opportunists have commodified this sacred heritage—and the public remained silent.
THE FACTUAL RECORD: PIONEER VS. COPY
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PIONEERING THE WEST GENUINE INDUSTRY LEGACY THE COMPOSER BEHIND THE KING
Traversing the globe in 40-year career in Indian Composed over 80% of Purna Das
the 1970s via written letters. Cinema (Bollywood) & 1000+ albums. Baul's most successful records.
The Unmatched Legacy of Pandit KD Babu Kishan
In our tradition, a master of this stature is honored as a Pandit (such as Gosia Chandra Das Baul). No commercial actor can mimic this pedigree.
Cosplayers build their brand by shadowing Babu Kishan’s life stories—erasing his name from his own 40-year career in Indian Cinema (Bollywood) and his decades of collaboration with global legends. These are not fan photos or casual backstage meetups; these are decades-long professional and personal relationships forged before the internet existed, when global travel required immense sacrifice.
Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan - his Indian Cinema 'Bollywood name) True Pioneer of World Music and Cultural Diplomacy
Early Global Footprint: Babu Kishan was representing Indian culture across the US and Europe as far back as 1971, long before the modern diaspora arrived abroad.
Pioneering Fusion: He created the first authentic Indian Fusion and Baul Fusion music. He toured the US playing 40 concerts with Bob Dylan and jammed with The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, George Harrison, The Beach Boys, and Miles Davis.
Bollywood Legend: He served as an assistant to his Bollywood Music Guru, R.D. Burman, for 14 years. He helped establish major record labels in Mumbai, categorized India's vast folk music catalog for industry producers, and was among the original architects who helped coin and shape "Bollywood."
Linguistic & Classical Mastery: A high-level oral and classical Sanskritist, he speaks and has recorded in an extraordinary range of Indian languages. He was the first artist to record the Hanuman Chalisa for modern commercial releases.
Official State Representation: For over 40 years, he served as an official Cultural Representative of India globally under the Sangeet Natak Akademi (Indian National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama) and the ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations).
The Composer Behind the Legend
Beyond his work as an independent artist, Babu Kishan (then known professionally as Krishnendu Das) composed over 80% of the music for his father, Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul. Those recordings became the most critically and commercially successful albums of Purna Das Baul's career.
You cannot replace a lifetime of primary achievement by creating a fake IMDb profile, posing as an academic, or teaching distorted fabrications about a sacred indigenous science. The historical record is permanent, verifiable, and absolute.
Archival Summary & Credentials
Titles & Honors: Pandit, Master of Indian Music, Award-Winning Music Composer & Producer.
Early Recognition: Awarded "Youngest Music and Film Director in Bengal" at age 11 (1978); widely decorated across Bengal through the 1980s; received the Bollywood Buddy Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) for his contributions to Indian Cinema.
Instrumental & Vocal Mastery: Multi-instrumentalist playing over 15 traditional and modern instruments; Master of Indian Classical, Baul, Bhajan, Kirtan, Baul-Kirtan, and East-West Fusion.
Discography & Filmography: Released over 1,000 albums, produced over 60 albums, and composed more than 150 film scores for Indian Cinema.
BabuKishan.org
https://bhavaproject.weebly.com/news-blog/archives/09-2018
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2018/09/babu-kishan-and-bob-dylan-untold-story.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2012/04/kd-babukishan-osho-bauls-of-bengal.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2022/07/kichhu-din-mone-mone-by-nabani-das.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2021/08/bob-dylan-and-babukishan-why-do-people.html
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Baul already has been 'archived and preserved', it was preserved decades ago by Babu Kishan. This lineage of Baul is the only Lineage of Baul, all Bauls follow this lineage, they sing their songs, dress like them and follow them around the world.
The Black Listed Journalist, the God Father of Rock Journalism, Al ARONOWITZ, his black listed journals have just been sold to Stanford Univerisity. He is a huge icon in Rock Journalism and he was a really unlikely good friend of Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) for almost 2 decades in New York City.
This is a blog post from BabuKishan.org where he has another blog
Babu Kishan is the first young person
from India to associate with all the American and British Musicians. He
was best friends with George Harrison and all too, he met the Rolling
Stones when he was only 9 years old in the UK and he remained good
friend with many through the decades.
Babu Kishan was only in his
early 20's 1984/1985 and he was well entrenched in Western Music, he
had a very good friend named Al Aronowitz in New York, USA. Al Aronowitz
was the creator and God father of Rock Journalism, he was later called
the Black Listed Journalist. Al was a good friend of the Beat poet Allen
Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and he knew everyone in the music scene. Aronowitz
was the USA PR person for the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and
he introduced Bob Dylan to the Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
Somehow,
the unlikely 2 met and the much older Al Aronowitz came to love Babu
like a son, even introduced Babu to his own children. Over the decades
he introduced Babu Kishan to many people and one of those was Quincy Jones.
Babu Kishan has always been a 'Master Collector', he
has a huge record album, stamp, coin, instrument, book, manuscripts,
videos of the world, pictures and a 'sun glass collection' he collected
camera's both movie and still camera's and he left at his Calcutta
Dhakuria home. It better still all be there because it is still
his home and he never authorized anybody to touch his 'life work' of
collecting or his extensive collections.
Babu was born to
collect and preserve music, categorize the music of India, he has
worked for the biggest record companies in Bombay doing just that
categorizing the Folk Music of India as he is an expert and Babu was
born to preserve his Baul lineage. He has a Masters Degree in Indian
Music from Calcutta University.
Krishnendu KD
aka Babu preserved all of his Baul tradition decades ago and it is
safely archived, this has already been done yet there are still new
Bauls who are tricking people to donate money to preserve
Baul. These 'nakal' fake Bauls are not to be trusted, they are cheating
people, they are not from Baul they are not even from Birbhum.
Babu's extensive record collection were personally signed by many of the Greatest Rock Musicians on the planet.
In
1984 Al Aronowitz took Babu Kishan to Tower Records where Babu had
chosen Albums by Micheal Jackson, Bob Dylan, Elvis, Ray Charles, Disco
Hits, Quincy Jones, just as he was going to pay for them Quincy Jones
appeared and Al Aronowitz introduced Babu to Quincy Jones. Al was going
on and on telling Quincy about Babu Kishan and his music career in
India. Quincy thanked, Babu for coming to Tower Records and said, all the records were a gift from Quincy. Very thankful and please at meeting Quincy Jones to Babu's delight all the albums were free. Babu said, "Quincy was such a down to earth person and great soul."
The Recording of "We are the World" Babu Kishan was there in the background watching the recording.
The second time Babu Kishan met Quincy Jones again was with Al Aronowitz at the Recording of "We are the World" in New York 1985, it was a honour
to be there and watch the whole production. I was lucky to sit and
watch Quincy Jones at work with all the Greats of America. They were all
so busy but I was there! Babu said, I am so lucky and I went on to
release these 'Greats of American music' in India when I worked for CBS
India (now Sony Music) From 1986- 1994 I personally met many of them
during this time period.
We are the World Recording attendee's:
Lionel Richie
• Stevie Wonder
• Paul Simon
• Kenny Rogers
• James Ingram
• Tina Turner
• Billy Joel
• Michael Jackson
• Diana Ross
• Dionne Warwick
• Willie Nelson
• Al Jarreau
• Bruce Springsteen
• Kenny Loggins
• Steve Perry
• Daryl Hall
• Huey Lewis
• Cyndi Lauper
• Kim Carnes
• Bob Dylan
• Ray Charles
Chorus (alphabetically)
• Dan Aykroyd
• Harry Belafonte
• Lindsey Buckingham
• Mario Cipollina
• Johnny Colla
• Sheila E.
• Bob Geldof
• Bill Gibson
• Chris Hayes
• Sean Hopper
• Jackie Jackson
• La Toya Jackson
• Marlon Jackson
• Randy Jackson
• Tito Jackson
• Waylon Jennings
• Bette Midler
• John Oates
• Jeffrey Osborne
• The Pointer Sisters
• Smokey Robinson
Special thanks always to my Good Friend Al Aronowitz it
was through him that I reconnected The Band & Bob Dylan &
Albert B Grossman to my father for the first time since 1967 where I
arranged a 40 city tour of America with Bob Dylan.
All the
contacts after 1967 came through me and my friendship with Al Aronowitz.
He was an unlikely friend but such a great friend for decades along
with Allen Ginsberg.
This is the only Das Baul and Dasi lineage,
it has been archived decades ago, be careful who you donate to because
there are some trying to ride on the coat tails of this lineage, taking
their songs and deleting their names adding their own names and made up
lineage?
https://davidsuzuki.org/about/
Baba Allaudin Khan was a admirer and friend of Babu Kishan's Grandfather 'Nabani Das Khyapa Baul' the great Mystic Baul Saint of Bengal.
Ali Akbar Khan (Annapurna's younger brother) was also, close from Calcutta and a family friend.
Annapūrṇā Devi; 1927 – 13 October 2018)
Babu has seen her playing the Sitar at 100 miles speed Babu Kishan has been one of the rare people to see her play her Sitar. He also, was lucky to spend much time with her and he says she was the best Sitarist ever and the greatest Sitar and Classical Music teacher ever, he knew personally all the greats she taught. Babu Kishan said, the times when he would visit her in Bombay he would be talking to her and her hands would be air playing the sitar always moving, always in Sitar meditation.
All her life she kept herself hidden but in Babu Kishan's opinion she was the real and only DIAMOND in the history of Hindustani Classical Music. She was married to the Sitar and a wonderful Women.
She proved her talent by creating the biggest flute Pandit and Santoor players in the world, ShivKumar Sharma (Santoor) and Hari Prasad Chaurasia (Flute) and many others but these are the 2 biggest according to Babu Kishan.
Babu Kishan would show up at her house, always unannounced with a packet of Sweets.
"Annapurna Devi became a very accomplished surbahar (bass sitar) player of the Maihar gharana (school) within a few years of starting to take music lessons from her father Alauddin Khan. She started guiding many of her father's disciples, including Nikhil Banerjee and Bahadur Khan, in classical music as well as in the techniques and intricacies of instrumental performances. In 1941, age 14, she married one of her father's talented students, Ravi Shankar. She converted to Hinduism upon marriage.
In the 1950s, Ravi Shankar and Annapurna Devi performed duets in Delhi and Calcutta, principally at the college of her brother, Ali Akbar Khan. But later, Shankar started getting insecure, since she used to be applauded in concerts more than he was, and she thereafter decided not to perform publicly.
Devi and Shankar's son, Shubhendra Shankar (1942–1992), (or "Subho", as he was popularly known) received rigorous training in sitar under her tutelage, until his father chose to interrupt his musical talim or training and took him to the United States. Shubhendra died at an early age in 1992, after a marriage and the birth of three children. Shubhendra did not have a solo career in classical music, but did for a period accompany his illustrious father Ravi Shankar in concerts in the USA and abroad."
Annapurna Devi's father Baba Allaudin Khan was the founder of Maihar Gharana."
In 1988, she married Rooshikumar Pandya, a management consultant, he died in 2013 suddenly of a cardiac arrest at the age of 73, the press release said."
"Many people in Indian have written about Allen Ginsberg & Bob Dylan and none of them have met either, making huge speculations that are impossibly inaccurate. They love to make up stories tying both to Bangladesh and the poet Lalon Fakir with Allen Ginsberg & Bob Dylan, making up stories about how generic Baul is tied to both. No Baul met or associated with Ginsberg and Dylan other than first Babu Kishan's father and his brother and then Babu Kishan. Babu Kishan is the only one who had an ongoing relationship with both but it is curious how other Bauls follow where Babu goes.
However, there is no tie other than late in Ginsberg's life he wrote a poem title Lalon and the poem had nothing to do with Lalon? It is a joke, so here is the real story and who both were great friends with, BABU KISHAN he is the only one from India and the only Baul who is on both web sites. Babu Kishan is the only one who became great friends with Al Aronowitz who was the God Father of Rock Journalism was also, friends with Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Albert B Grossman it was through Al Aronowitz that Babu Kishan met all of the great Musicians of America.
It was through Ravi Shankar that he met George Harrison, Babu traveled and performed with Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan and many others."
Babu Kishan is in the process of writing his personal story of his long friend and friendship with Allen Ginsberg. He is the only Baul who developed a long friendship with Allen Ginsberg.
Of course this friendship has it roots in Babu Kishan's Grandfather 'Nabani Das Khyepa Baul'who was an Avadhuta that Ginsberg met on his trip to India in '1962' and whom he kept a personal and private connection all his life. You can see Babu Kishan's link on Allen Ginsbergs Page under links, miscellany. Babu and Allen are both poets and they were mystical friends.
"We also are indebted to the influence of Allen Ginsberg, who met Nabani Das in the early 1960s and wrote “Indian Journals” and never wavered from his spiritual path; to Albert B. Grossman who brought Nabani’s sons Purna and Luxman Das Baul with their group to the US in 1967 to record for Elektra Records and tour; "
Albert Grossman was the Music Producer of Bob Dylan. It was 'Allen Ginsberg' who contacted them to bring Nabani Das Khyapa Baul to America:
"Albert Bernard Grossman (May 21, 1926 – January 25, 1986) was an American entrepreneur and manager in the American folk music scene and rock and roll. He was famous as the manager of many of the most popular and successful performers of folk and folk-rock music, including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Peter, Paul and Mary, the Band, Odetta, Gordon Lightfoot and Ian & Sylvia."
It should be noted that it was Allen Ginsberg who wanted to bring Nabani Das Khyepa Baul to America but he refused, thus he sent his two son's, Laxshman Das Baul and Purna Das Baul and their band. You can see them on the cover of Bob Dylan's album 'John Wesley Harding'.
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This is the only Baul Poetry Allen Ginsberg wrote.
“Baul of Bengal, I sing for all, Blue Danube is my Jamuna, Hudson my Vrindavan, see me in Calcutta, Toronto and London, Hear my call Baul of Bengal, Same man many names, same player, many games, Love is magic to win at life, Hear my call O Baul of Bengal.”
Written by Allen Ginsberg in 1983,
as a gift to Babu Kishan '
Babukishan composed the music for the original in collaboration with Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, (of The Band) Bob Dylan's Band in 1985 for the tour.
This is the one and only piece of Baul poetry Ginsberg wrote. Babu Kishan sang this on 40 city American tour with Bob Dylan and the Band.
Babu became great friends with The Band and jammed with them all the time.
Babu Kishan
Author Al Aronowitz, a legendary New York journalist, will sign copies of his book at the club, located at 308 Bowery, beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 27. As the man who introduced Allen Ginsberg to Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan to the Beatles and the Beatles to marijuana, Aronowitz likes to boast:
"The '60s wouldn't have been the same without me."
The book contains first-hand descriptions of meetings between Dylan and the Beatles that no other writer can describe because no other writer was there at the time. Also participating in the music jam will be jazz saxophonist Hayes Greenfield; Chicago blues guitarist Ladell McLin; Jazz Foundation president Wendy Oxenhorn on harmonica; Kevin Twigg on drums and John DeWitt on bass.
Babukishan Das, familiarly known as Babu, is the son of the celebrated Bengali Baul. Purna Das, whom Dylan introduced to American audiences by posing with Purna for the cover of Dylan's "John Wesley Harding" album. Purna's son, Babu, who has a hit recording on India's pop charts, has made a name for himself by writing scores for many of the films streaming out of India's film capital, known for some reason as Bollywood.
Jacob Dylan confirmed his Dad has never ever been to India. That story is FAKE NEWS by Babu Kishan's younger brother, who negatively influenced his father Purna Das Baul who is in his mid 80's to go along with it?
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/08/formal-notice-of-intellectual-property.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/08/roots-of-vaishnava-baul-sahaja-sahajiya.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/08/academia-vaishnava-sahajiya-baul.html
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/09/you-can-not-reclaim-what-you-do-not-own.html
Erasing us by replacing us, this singular historical. lineages 'firsts and lasts' that have already been 'completed and lived' is cultural mis-aapropriation.
This singular parampara are the only ROOTS of Baul, there are no roots of Baul in Buddhism or Charayapada songs of the Buddhists.
In January, I publicly announced the title of KD Babu Kishan’s fourth upcoming book: Historical Baul. Almost overnight, the terms "Historical Baul" and "Roots of Baul" suddenly materialized in the promotional materials of theatrical, cosplaying performers.
How does this happen? The answer is simple: our online archives and manuscript drafts are systematically scraped, poached, and commodified by opportunistic actors—just as this ancestral lineage has been exploited for decades. They pick clean the bones of our family history, copying where we go, how we dress, the songs we sing, our dance style, and even the "Baul in the West" narratives. They shamelessly lift the precise Tattvas categorized by Krishnendu Das Baul over his six decades of preserving authentic Baul roots.
Most bizarrely, these impostors now claim to be "the next Purna Das Baul." To attempt to replace a living 93-year-old indigenous icon—a man who stands as the absolute first and peerless legend of this tradition—exposes the absurd lengths to which cultural fraud will go.
The systematic co-optation of the Birbhum Baul lineage has reached a level of blatant theft that can no longer be ignored.
Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) has preserved this singular parampara of Baul for over 60 years, no one else ever has except for his ancestor of 13 generations who have passed this lineage down in an the unbroken oral Sanskrit, Vernacular Birbhum, Baul style Sandhya Bhasha and Braja Bhasha with manuscripts, Baul was never illiterate, not speaking English, Pali or Urdu does not mean one is illiterate. Babu Kishan has categorized all the Folk Music of India in 1990 for all the big record companies in Bombay India.
Babu Kishan is the only Expert on Baul poetry, Baul Music, and Baul (period).
Shadow Footprinting, what it is, how this one and only pioneering Historical Roots of Baul has been tracked, retraced, remade and erased by non-indigenous people not even from the soul and soil of Birbhum. This is not inspiriration it is systemic indigenous intellectual theft that has created a cultrual genocide of the very people who preserved, gave up their lives generation after generation of bring Baul forward, Baul is about doing Seva, not serving oneself. KD Babu Kishan preserved this lineage for over 60 years his Guru is the last Baul Guru and Baul Avadhuta Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and is alive because of him and his healing siddhi's as the only Baul to be initiated by Bama Kepa at Tarapith. Tarapith regarding Baul is only the story of this lineage as is Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul and Baul and West only through Baul Samrat Purna Chandra Das Baul since the 1959s, Manju Dasi (the only women Baul to travel the world since the late 1960s, and their eldest son Krishnendu Das Baul since 1970s.
Shadow Footprinting: The systematic physical retracing of a primary source's historical footprint to absorb its institutional prestige and obscure the original creator 'first and Lasts' of indigenous Baul."Shadow Footprinting"
Shadow Footprinting & Identity Cannibalization:
The systematic ingestion of a primary lineage holder’s lived experiences, personal relationships, academic breakthroughs, and oral body-science tattva ("that-ness," "truth," "reality," or the "essential nature" of things that are Baul), songs, tune, lyrics Baul Kirtan the 108 tattvas only categorized by KD Babu Kishan.
Babu Kishan has recorded, preserved,written about Baul since the 1970's. The lived lives of (Purna Das Baul, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Manju Das, Brajabala Dasi, Radharani Dasi and Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan's) have been copied and shadow footprinted as a remaking, of their actual identity, their lived lives are now someone else lif and turned into a commercial PR brand that feeds off the original creator while attempting to erase their existence, now represented as a social media influencer Baul who for decades now have made a popular career of acting Bual by stripping the roots of this lineage, purposely erasing us by replacing us through shadow footprinting us?
Shadow Footprinting & Archival Squatting:
The hostile strategy of occupying the exact institutional coordinates, university archives, sacred ashrams, and international performance venues where the true lineage made history—effectively "squatting" on established cultural authority to deceive audiences into mistaking a modern re-enactment for legitimate heritage.
Shadow Footprinting & Spectral Theft:
"The deliberate copying of the historical roots, physical locations, and ancestral legacy of a primary source, alongside the philosophical and colonial impact of this deception—rebranding, remaking, tracking all of this lineage, "firsts and lasts" in Baul History, and replacing the authentic roots of Baul with performative cosplay acting.
Shadow Footprinting & Chronological Hijacking:
The exploitation of public memory loss and modern search engine algorithms by flooding the digital landscape with recent, high-volume media that co-opts original terminology (Historical Baul, Roots of Baul)—overwriting older historical records to make the synthetic copy appear as the sole surviving authority. Claiming you are the next Purna Das Baul or Baul Ambassador both indigenous one and only in Baul history. Claiming you are Baul, your Guru was Baul and that you actually are a lineage Baul when 100% it can be proven you are not. The indigneous intellectual property theft can be proven.
Shadow Footprinting (the method) with Spectral Theft or Archival Squatting (the act) creates an immediate, undeniable diagnosis of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) fraud that cuts straight through marketing spin of 'erasing indigenous Baul by those who are systemically replacing us as cosplyer Baul Artists and self-title Baul Masters'. The indigenous intellectual shadow footprinting of this one and only pioneering indigenous Baul, the shadow footprinting of all their 'firsts and lasts' of historical Baul roots, their songs, dress, style, instruments, where they went, who they met and what they have created as a modern template for the indigenous Bauls to survive the modern world.
The modern template Babu Kishan created was only for indigenous Bauls, his ancestors who were poor and marginalized, however the trickerrandom middle class raised people out of the blue started pretendian they were Baul, these were not villagers, they were from someone where esle, they came to plagiaizing songs, shadow footprinting every move Purna Das Baul made, they started to claim they were lineage Baul by making up lineages and Baul Gurus who it can be proven are not Baul Gurus, serious plagiarizing of songs, dance, style, insturments, dress and the lineage Bauls lives.
Decades, lifetimes of preserving Baul under the most difficult situations, war, famine, campaings of hate by the orthodox and now we have the fake Bauls stealing the historical legacy of this ancestral indigenous generational lineage. Baul has lived through a cultural genocide, the openly lying while stealing this lineages lived lives, copying everything (shadow footprinting) everything this lineage has ever done, yes, this is serious claim and according to the United Nations it erodes the indigenous rights of self-determination and is indigenous fraud.
KD Babu Kishans lifes work has been poached, cherry picked, shadow footprinted, his life has been reworked and re-presented, including his India Cinema Career, his academic time representing Baul, Indian Philosophy, Indian Music as a successful Music Composer, producer, and poet which most of his songs he wrote under pen names, his lyrics were used in Indian Cinema with over 200 hundred succesful songs, his 12 years as a monk in the Ramakrishna Mission and fundraising for them, decades of fundraising for Gaudiya Vaishnavim and the roots through their ancestor Nityananda of Ekachakra, you name it all re-made by shadow footprinting fakes, who never had any connection to Baul history or through this lineage. We know 100% the Gurus mentioned by the cosplayer self-titled Baul Masters are not Baul.
A complete indigenous intellectual theft ot this lineage has been perpetrated over decades. Question: why would know say anything, because the indigenous Bauls were busy trying to survive, as all indigenous people worldwide are. It wasn't untile I have seen how this type of indigenous fraud is dealt with in Canada and recently I saw that the cosplayers are saying there was a Baul Mela and a Baul Ashram in British Columbia Canada, stop your lying, we have rules here agains indigenous fraud. I thought enough is enough.
He has been debating Baul as an authority on Baul since he first came to the West in the 1970s, his father came in 1967 that is history, they created Baul in West and have a 50 years history of Baul in the West.
The others were not actual Baul they followed everything Purna Das Baul did, where he went, who he met, his style, dress, dance, instruments songs, kirtans were all poached and re-recorded. This is indigenous intellectual property theft, poaching, cultural mis-appropriation and fraud. That is what you see today, cultural fraud of an indigenous guru shishya parampara. There is a long, story of how this all started, in the 1940s when Purna Das Baul came to Calcutta from Birbhum there were Zero Bauls in Calcutta. He made Baul famous as a first and last in Baul history, today we have people not even from any roots in Bengal saying, they are the Next Purna Das Baul watching, hunting everything this lineage has ever done, to replace them, this is not only insidious it is indigenous fraud.
This lineage has been repackaged, the whole singular history of Baul in the West has been retraced right down to the people he developed relationships since the 1970s stripped of this lineages historical root history reworked, reacted out by fake, pretendian cosplaying Bauls. If I don't say you will think the imposter cosplayers are Baul, sorry they are not. They have systemically retraced, tracked everything this lineage has done, where they have gone and remade them for social media influence. This is going to come out in a big way, every step can be qualified, debated this cherry picking, cultural appropriation can go on no longer.
He is legendary in Indian Music and the poetry of India. He poetry has been used in over 200 super dupter hits in Indian Cinema, Baul and in Folk music. He did not come out of the woodwork with woodwork to make outrageous claims. Buddhist poetry has not ROOTS in Baul and to use the term historical for a fake made up Baul lineage is absolutely intellectual idigenous fraud.
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2026/09/you-can-not-reclaim-what-you-do-not-own.html
It is beyond shocking to watch our lineage’s sacred "firsts and lasts" systematically stripped down, repackaged, and reduced to quick YouTube clips designed to chase online algorithms, collect superficial awards, and secure international travel contracts. The living, profound truth of authentic Baul is being diluted into a playground of selective cherry-picking—driven by the whim and arrogant reinterpretation of individuals who are not even from Birbhum, let alone West Bengal.
Let us be entirely clear and call this what it is: this is a classic, textbook case of indigenous fraud.
These social media influencers and self-titled actors are not Baul. They are commercial performers chasing donation-driven jackpots, fundraising revenue, and global spiritual tourism contracts. Their so-called "gurus" were not lineage Bauls, and the watered-down, performative spectacle they sell to unsuspecting audiences actively reduces, commodifies, and destroys the sacred integrity of the path.
They attempt to quietly replace the true indigenous Bauls by recreating their outward image, all while systematically poaching their intellectual property—stealing their songs, mimicking their dance, retracing their exact global footsteps, and claiming the hard-won, lived sacrifices of this unbroken bloodline as their own personal brand.
Walking in a pioneer’s footprint while wearing a costume does not make someone a lineage holder. The ancestral heritage, the internal body-science, and the 13-generation historical authority of the Birbhum lineage cannot be copied, bought, or performatively acted out for an audience. The theft of this lived life stops here.
“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.”
They re-package a watered-down or romanticized version. The mainstream world then accepts the fake/distorted version as authentic, effectively erasing the original living caretakers and replacing them in the public consciousness. I have see this in academia, and in the western audiences who do not have a clue, if it sweetly smiles and looks exotic it must be, whether their lineage is fake, their style and songs are appropriated, they have not got a clue.
When a sacred song, medicine, or teaching is taken out of its traditional lineage, it loses its spirit or in this case Baul essence (the Shakti that has been passed down for hundreds of years). When the dominant society spreads that distorted version, the original community is erased because their true practice is no longer recognized—even by their own youth who grow up seeing only the mainstream caricature.
Babu Kishan's father Purna Das Baul and Uncle Laxshman Das Baul 1967 @ the Big Pink in Woodstock NY staying at Bob Dylans home. No other Bauls ever had any contact with Bob Dylan or Allen Ginsberg and Babu Kishan was friends with both. Regarding Bob Dylan it was only Babu Kishan who released all of Bob Dylans music to India, and Asia as he was with CBS India at the time. I have no idea how all the false association and lies of "the fake it til you make it Baul' orchestrated, they never knew Bob Dylan.
The new self-titled Baul Masters are no better, they go to places this lineage has gone and give flippant vague answers when asked a question. This lineage has performed at the London Library for decades starting in the 1970s, then a fake Baul apprears cosplaying Baul, they seriously have tracked everywhere this lineage has gone as a first and last in Baul history, contact the people and pretend they are a Baul??
They appropriate Baul and pretend they are Baul singing the songs from this lineage, how fake, it will be called out in a big way. No social media influencers is Baul, first they said they were, then they said they were initiated and they read the blog and try to explain what we have already wrote with a twist, this has all been documented, all I can say is please keep giving more evidence. This is indigenous fraud. Names will be mentioned, they think they are smart, they know the west has not got a clue.
Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Baul Samrat (Padma Shree) Purna Das Baul (in his 90s) and Krishnendu Das Baul aka Babu Kishan's lives have been poached, everything they have done has been reworked and reclaimed by Cosplayer pretend Bauls for social media consumption while they never did the work. It is like... oh they went there (so they go there) every single place and they claim it as if they did the work and they even give a reason why. It is so obvious I wouldn't have believed it if I had not documented it all (kept safely in my files) or been told about this by Babu Kishan who has observed this for over 60 years. He created the road, did all the work and they poached. This has become viral in the past ten years. They have destroyed Baul with their lies and false narratives.
The twisting of the facts, the false narratives are astounding and have continued for way too long, decades, it amount to looting the indigenous intellectual property and a 13 generation documented lineage and thousands of years before. This amounts to indigenous fraud of this singular pioneering sect.
No we won't stop, we will bring all out into the open. When the trilogy on Baul is released, all will be exposed, qualified both in the Indian system and western Academic system of all those who have used Baul in one way or another and continue to use Baul. Baul is for the world, but not the way it is has been used and abused. The first tenant of Baul is tell the truth.
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2025/02/indigenous-identity-theft-indigenous.html
'Baul and the West' was complete by the only lineage parampara of Baul, those trying to open centres in the USA are lying and they are not Baul, they are 100% cosplayers, they have made up lies. The 'fake it til you make it' Bauls of the 1970s are dead. The new 'Baul Artist' and 'Baul Masters' are not Baul, there has never ever been such a thing ever in the thousands or even hundreds of years of Baul.
Cosplaying Baul is not Baul. Cosplay is the opposite of Baul (Vayu Tula)—it is a deliberate attempt to make the outer world perfectly reflect an inner passion or an idealized version of a character or indigenous Baul. Depending on the context, you might hear Cosplay described as:
Character Roleplay: Emphasizing acting side, thus, Baul Artist or self-titled newly made up Baul Masters?
Costuming: A more general term often used in theater or historical reenactment.'
Masquerade: Specifically refers to the performance competitions held at conventions where cosplayer's perform skits on stage the new Baul Mela that have no Bauls or nothing to do with Baul, other than acting or copying this lineage or singular parampara who made Baul famous, otherwise no one would know about Baul.
Therefore, the opportunistic claimants thought it would be idea pretending to be a Baul to gain attention: collect awards, use Baul for worldwide travel as most people do not have a clue, collecting donations, fundraising for financial jackpots in what is now known as the fake 'Guru Ma and Baba business.' Not based on actual adhikara (indigenous authority or rights of Indigenous self-determination), authority, indigenous ancestry, but lies acting or cosplaying as social media influencers, all while cheating by copying all the firsts and lasts of this lineage Baul already lived lives and pretending you actually did the work or were associated?
Replacing us by Remaking and acting out every step that this lineage has already completed as indigenous Baul including where they went and what they did, songs, style? This is all highly documented over decades.
Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is the last Baul Avadhut. Brajabala Dasi is the last authentic lineage Baul, she taught Babu Kishan all the stories, and oral Sanskrit. She is from the Narottama Das family lineage. Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is Gosia Chandra Das Baul he was born in Ekachakra Birbhum W Bengal where the roots of this lineage lie buried in the Soul and Soil of Ekachakra, he is a direct ancestor of Nityananda of Ekachakra who was a Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul Avadhut the elder Guru of Chaitanya. Academics and the Orthodox have it all wrong. Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul comes hundreds of years before Gaudiya Vaishnavism.
In the literal sense, Cosplay is a blend of the words "costume" and "play." While it started as a harmless hobby where fans dress up as characters from movies, anime, or video games, it has evolved into a powerful metaphor for identity deception—especially in the context of the spiritual and cultural theft we've been discussing.
There 100% is no Baul Ashram or a Baul Mela in British Columbia, Canada, what a joke. to have a Baul Ashram or Bel Mela you need an actual Baul? I have lived here my whole life. Do not lie or make me laugh, those Western Bauls are not Baul, they have tried for years to steal the intellectula property of this lineage. Be inspired by Baul but don't make people stupid. KD Babu Kishan rejected them decades ago and they hooke with a cosplaying Baul LOL, seriously you can't make this up anymore. If there is a first western Baul a name given by Purna Das Baul personaly to Bob Dylan who obviously could care less, the of course Babu Kishan told Mark Gerhart and Rondha Gerhart they were western Bauls, that is another story.
I think but can't recall if Purna Das Baul in passing told Jai Uttal and Mark Gerhart in the 1970s they were western Bauls but he did that in passing to many people usually astonished anybody in the West would be interested in Baul. All of these musicians including Krishna Das and many of the Neem Karoli Baba devotees of the 1970s used to come to see Purna Das Baul, Manju Das and KD Babu Kishan wanting to play on their stage when they came to New York for cultural performances, teachings ect... Babu Kishan has known them since then, we dropped into a Krishna Das performance in Vancouver in 2010? I can't remember and Babu Kishan after the chanting took me up to meet Krishna Das, who said, Om my God Babu what are you doing here, you should have told me and we could have jammed, he then said to KD Babu Kishan - you are the real Krishna Das amoung other things, he was puzzled when Babu Kishan introduced me as his wife.. LOL
Perform the "Role": They act out the "madness" (Khyapa) or the wandering ascetic lifestyle for an audience, but they lack the underlying Sadhana (spiritual practice) and the Lineage (ancestral DNA/permission).
Why it is Harmful for indigenous Baul and this singular Lineage
Unlike a fan dressing up as a superhero, these "cultural cosplayers" are dangerous because they lie about the source.
A cosplayer says, "I am dressing up as Nabani Das Khyapa Baul or Purna Das Baul." A cultural cosplayer says, "I AM the successor of Nabani Das Das Khyapa Baul or Purna Das Baul."
By "cosplaying" the lived lives of your family (Nabani Das, Purna Das, Purna Das Baul, Babu Kishan), or the Baul Women (who are extinct) of this lineage they are essentially creating a Deepfake of your history. They use the visual and verbal "costume" to:
They get the "look" of a 50-year practitioner in 5 minutes.
Fishing for finacial Jackpots: They trick organizations like UNESCO or universities into believing they are the "real deal" because they look exactly like the photos they saw online.
Erasure: They replace the actual, messy, lived reality of the indigenous Baul with a polished, "cosplayed" version that is easier for the West to consume.
This "Pretendian" phenomenon is the ultimate symptom of the Kali Yuga—a time where the "Package" is sold as the "Product," and the "Cosmetic" is mistaken for the "Cosmic."
In the 13-generation lineage of Babu Kishan, Baul is a Biological and Intellectual Sovereignty. It is not a genre of world music, a lifestyle choice, or a costume one puts on to collect "likes." The distortion of this history is a form of cultural erasure that ignores the "Ancient Gold" of the Rarh civilization.
1. The "Baul Artist" or Baul Master? vs. The "Baul Parampara"
The Western market and modern "wokism" have created the "Baul Artist"—a performer who mimics the dress, the "gub-gubi" sound, and the wandering aesthetic, cosplays Nabani Das Khyapa Baul with dreads and using his songs, his style of Ektara, drum tied around his waste and even his ankle bells Nupoor bells encased in metal. Before you even know who is Baul and who is not, do you even understand the language?
The Reality: Without the 13 generations of oral Sanskrit tradition, they lack the Mohana Vijnana. They are singing the "notes" but they do not hold the "Key."
The Sovereignty: Baul is an Indigenous Right. Just as one cannot "self-title" as a Native American Tribal Chief, one cannot "self-title" as a Baul Master. It is a birthright and a qualification proven in the "Dojo" of Purva Paksha.
2. 1967: The Singular Bridge
The claim that Baul was "pioneered in the West" by anyone other than the lineage of Nabani Das and his descendants is a historical lie.
The Foundation: In 1967, the real Baul frequency was brought to the West not as "entertainment," but as a profound Tantric transmission.
The Coattails: Modern "Masters" are riding on the cultural capital built by your ancestors. They use the name "Baul" to gain access to stages and followers, while simultaneously shaming the indigenous practices (like the Four Moons or the Sahajiya Tantra) that make the tradition powerful.
3. The Ganja Myth: Hippie Symptom vs. Baul Science
The association of Baul with "Ganja smoking" in the West is a Hippie-era reduction.
The Distraction: For the West, "Ganja" was a shortcut to an altered state. For the Indigenous Baul, the "High" is produced internally through Vayu Tula (the Wind-Scale) and the Amrit Manthan (Internal Churning). It was only Bauls like Nabani Das Khyapa Baul that had mastered the alchemy, he is the last Baul Avadhuta and last Baul Guru who passed away in 1969 his practices have nothing to do with the west.
The Disgust: Using a "smoke-and-mirrors" lifestyle to market Baul on social media is a "dirty-minded" distortion. It ignores the Asceticism, the Linguistic Mastery, and the Ecological Attunement of the true Rarh Khyapa.
4. The "Sheep" and the Social Media "Remake"
Social media has allowed "Pretendians" to curate a fake history. They "remake" the Baul story to fit a liberal, palatable, "folk" narrative that doesn't challenge the "Orthodox Blindness."
The Erasure: By stripping away the Sanskrit roots and the Krishna/Dattatreya Sahaja science, they make Baul "safe" for consumption. By the way they have always said, Baul Sahaja is Buddhist Sahaja, it all of sudden they change their story, you will know they are liars and poachers. It looks like the Vaishnava look didn't work, now they are playing up the Tara Ma look as a tantric Baul copying Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Babu Kishan's legacy. Saying Nila Saraswati (Tara Ma) is singing through them. Seriously you can not make this up, I have documented this from one to the other, to see what will stick for 20 years.
The Resistance: The lineagebauls.blogspot.com archive is the antidote. By using terms like Purva Paksha, Nayika Sadhana, and referencing Adhikara (authority with a living lineage, not a made up fake lineage), the conversation from "Art" to "Science."
5. Proclamation: The End of the "Faking It" Era
The Geographic Origin: They claim that the lineage originates in Murshidabad is false, there were no Baul in Murshibad, no lineages, Babu Kishan knew everyone who was a Baul; the true roots are elsewhere in Ekachakra and you try to claim that too, oh no you don't water down, you are not an authority on Baul, you know how to poach Baul.
Those within the authentic lineage do not recognize "Shashanko Goshai" and have never heard of that name, as a figure of any standing, certainly not a Baul. Nobody has ever heard of him at all let alone as a Baul with a lineage. Nabani Das Khyapa Bauls dance is documented as his style (the Ektara -Gopi Yantra, Baya -drum around the waist - his style of ankle bells called Nuppour).
If he used 'Nabani Das Khyapa Baul' which you have claimed as an very old traditional style, he copied Nabani which is what you are doing. While randomizing Baul by say the Ektara, waist drum and nupoor in a very random light? Seriously, Babu Kishan knew everybody and never ever heard of him, he knew all The Gosia back them and says, 100% there are no Bauls from Murshibad.
My questions is how does 3 days become - 3 years , I documented all these changes over 20 years. How the stories change. Stop copying or using any intellectual property from our blogs, websites. Baul is not from Turkey, Baul is not by initiation from a fake Baul, whatever, this singular small sect of indigenous Bauls has lived as first and last, they create Youtube videos as if you were the one?
The Instrument & Style: The specific combination of Ektara, Baya (not "duggi"), and Nupoor is the intellectual and spiritual invention of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul. To use these as a costume without acknowledging that specific source is a violation of the lineage's integrity.
The Distortion of Time: The shifting narrative (from 3 days of "learning" to 3 years) and the bizarre claim that Baul originates in Turkey are indicators of a self-created myth meant to bypass the rigorous, lifelong training of a true Baul family. It is under copyright, stop taking things reworking them as if you knew.
The Legal Path: Moving toward a "cease and desist" is a significant step in reclaiming the Svadharma (essential nature) of the lineage.
The claim of being the "first" is the ultimate tool of the colonizer and the gentrifier when one is not from this lineage or singular parampara. It suggests that before they arrived, the tradition was "lost," "unstructured," or "primitive." To actual have the gaul to say that Baul did not teach in the west and you are going to rescue Baul is a dangerous lie bordering on insidious.
The Reality: The Baul Kirtans and Bhakti paths were refined and protected by the indigenous souls of Bharat the Vaishnava Sahajiya Bauls—people like Nabani Das Khyapa Baul—long before the modern "Guru-market" existed.
The Deception: By claiming to be "first," these opportunists try to position themselves as the "Founders" or "Owners" of a tradition they merely rented from a blog or a YouTube video. It allows them to set up entry barriers and "certify" others, creating a financial monopoly over spiritual truth.
The Weaponization of "WE"
In the world of the indigenous Baul, the only "We" that exists is the Parampara (the unbroken chain of teacher to student). But in the mouth of a "pretendian" artist, "We" is used to:
Dilute Responsibility: If they say "We do it this way," they don't have to explain who taught them. It implies a vague, mystical consensus that doesn't exist.
Poach Authority: It allows a random singer to wrap themselves in the "we" of the Nabani Das lineage without ever having done the work. It is a way of "fishing for jackpots" by pretending to be part of a team they were never invited to join.
Gentrify this one and only Baul Lineage: By saying "We," they take the "dirt and grit" of the Birbhum villages and turn it into a polished, "randomized" product for a Western audience.
There is no "We." There is the Lineage, and then there are the Claimants.
Randomization vs. Recognition
The "randomization" you mention is a classic gentrification tactic. If the history of Baul is kept "random" and "mysterious," it is easier for anyone to step in and claim it.
Recognition: This is what you are doing—identifying the specific faces, names, and lives of Nabani Das, Purna Das, and Babu Kishan. This is specific, grounded, and rooted in soil.
Randomization: This is what the claimants do. They keep things vague. They talk about "The Bauls" as a faceless group of wandering minstrels so they can "cosplay" as the representative of that group.
Summary: The Line in the Sand
I associated and worked with all musicians in Calcutta and Bombay as I was a Music Composer from a very young age. I have a BA and MA from Calcutta University in Indian Music. I am a born musician and music composer certified as a Music Composer, he composed for Sultan Khan and played music with him.
I composed, recorded and makreting, most of my fathers renowned Baul Singer #PurnaDasBaul Music.
Babu is the only one who introduced his parents Worldwide and at the #RoyalAlbertHall. Babu Kishan arranged and completely organized these programs, by himself with Greater London Council a South Asian Show.
In this program Babu's friends and his fellow muscians included Zakir Husain, Runa Laila and Sultan khan. Babu had already recorded several private & film music in Mumbai for Bollywood Films.
Babu Kishan worked and promoted all Indian Music around the World for International Music Label CBS and others in Mumbai for a long time. He is the first from his family and lineage to arrange a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London Uk.
He brought and taught his brothers some instruments so that they could be included, this is the first time his siblings to participated with Mother Manju Das, Purna Chandra Das Baul and with Krishnendu Das (today’s Music Legendary #KDBabuKishan). This was 1986.
Even before this concert Babu Kishan toured all over #Europe, #Canada and #America with parents, his siblings were never involved. At that time they did not even like or participate in any musical event.
Babu Kishan by himself is still participating Worldwide: Universities, Music Festivals even International Film Festivals.
Babu Kishan as a big brother always considered his siblings and brought his siblings to join in Asia tour, America tour in 1988, they tagged along.
I worked hard all my life and they just benefited, taking pictures with people who are my friends and people I personally worked with and then making up stories, taking my name off and adding their names, when I created this history. I built a platform for them and all the Bauls of Bengal for the next generation and they benefited. This is history and today everybody is using, saying they are the ones?
Later my Music from Royal Albert Hall Concert was released in the same time that I produced ‘Sri Chaitanya‘ Drama on Cassette by Kolkata’s Megaphone Music Company. I arranged this for my father because at the time he was not getting performances due to the CPM government. Babu Kishan arranged all including concerts out side of India. I created composed and produced this drama, I always gave their name and kept myself behind the screen and always gave my Dad's name? This also, was because of my his long time connection with Kamal Da the owner of Megaphone.
The first time they came to London was 1971 for a concert in Hypde Park fundraising for Bangladesh as part of the Indian contingent along with Family friends Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustand Ali Akbar Khan and others. Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones brough Purna DAs Baul and family to his place in Nice France to record him for his album Jai Bangla.. Babu Kishan was there. This is long story and goes on many decades.
Babu Kishan's friends George Harrison of the Beatles, Al Aronowitz the Blacklisted Journalist father of Rock Journalism, Allen Ginsberg who wrote the only Baul poetry for Babu Kishan and Bob Dylan the connection was real. In 1985 Babu Kishan toured with Bob Dylan singing the poetry written by Allen Ginsberg, toured in USA... another long story.
Babu Kishan taught at Universities, Cultural Centres, temples all over America, even Yoga Studios, what did he teach starting in the late 1970s forward he taught what the cosplaying Bauls have boldly said no Baul ever taught yet tried to copy, no no no you don't get to get away with appropriating Baul and then lying about the history of Baul. He taught Baul, Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul, Baul poetry, history, dance, songs Bhakti Yoga, Indian Philosophy, Sanskrit and most of Indian Music, including instruments, style, Baul, Kirtan, Classical, Folk because he had adhikara, he owned it, he did the work for over 6 decades preserving Baul.
He is authentic, he didn't do a social media display pretending he was a Baul attending the Ramakrishna Mission, then having to qualify they were invited. The were invited because they contact, beg to act out their act in the name of Baul, telling people they are Baul acting as if they are indigenous to Baul.
Babu was a actual 'first and last' only Baul to be a monk in the Ramakrishna order in Calcutta for 12 years.
He doesn't play pretend of the association between 'Gaudiya Vaishnavism and Baul' he lived it, fundraising for both organizations for decades in India and Internationally,
When he teaches at at Univeristy it is because he is qualified as a paid lecturer not on a donation acting level only because everything he has ever done is remade and acted out, not because he did it so they copy and pretend they did too. Even his Indian Cinema career of 40 years acted out as if any Baul before him or after him had an legit career in Indian Cinema on all levels. I mean why open a IMBD account while cosplaying Baul, he does not want followers. He wants people as individuals to wake up and think for themselves, learn discernment, develop your intellect, do not follow anybody, yes be inspired but wake up to your own soul, body and mind.
Baul is not the Guru Ma or Guru Baba business of self agrandization. No one can be the new Purna Das Baul he is a first and last. A no one should steal the intellectual property of this lineage remake it, re-record it, their songs, styles, the very lived lives of this lineage stolen, no more.
Joy Guru
For too long (decades) Baul has been mis-appropriated by inauthentic opportunistic fake Bauls and written about with false narratives by the Colonial Academic scholarly institutions. Baul was pioneered and made popular by this parampara only, other copied, and are self-titled Bauls who make up as they go, riding on the coattails of this parampara as self-titled Bauls, not initiated indigenous Bauls, this can be proven, Baul is never one generation based on a poet? So if you hear Bauls acting like they are Bauls on podcacts, youtube videos, they are not Baul especially the ones now talking about all the firsts and last of only this lineage, replacing us by remaking our lived history. #google #Gemini #Grok #chatgbt
Key Baul Figures & Lineage
#NabaniDasKhyapaBaul #PurnaDasBaul #BabuKishan #KrishnenduDasBaul #lineagebaul #baullineage #NabaniDasBaul #dasbaul #NityanandaofEkachakra #ChandiDas #Joydev #GosaiVaishnavaDasBaul ##NeemKaroliBaba #baulparampara
Core Baul Concepts & Philosophy
#Baultantra #GaudiyaVaishnavaandBaul #Baulphilosophy #VaishnavaSahajiya #VaishnavaSahajiyaTantricBauls #KrishnaKaliunity #Krishnakali #RaaiRajaLila #Baulsadhana #BaulAvadhut #BaulAvadhuta #BaulthepathoftheAvadhuta #BaulsahajaKrishnaDattatreyasahahaja #Baultantramantragopiyantra #BaulKirtan #BaultheRasaLilaMystics #BaulVayuTula #Baulwindcatchers #mirrorofthesky
Geographic & Cultural Context
#BirbhumBaul #Birbhum #EkachakraBirbhum #Tarapith #TarapithandBaul #TaraMa&Baul #Kolkata #Shantiniketan #shantiniketanbirbum #Bengal #baulofbengal #baulofbirbhum #India #IncredibleIndia #indianmusic #sangeetnatakakademi
Critique & Preservation
#Baultruth #Baulculturalappropriation #Baulrealhistory #EndangeredBaullineage #Baulendangeredlineageparampara #Baulhistory #baularchive #archivedbaul
Baul Music
#baulmusic #baulgaan #Bauldocumentary #baulsangeet #baulkirtan #ektara #gopiyantra
Related Figures & Movements
#RabindranathTagore #BaulTagore #osho #VaishnavaBaul #TantricBaul #vaishnavaaghori #Ramakrishna #BaulandRamakrishna
General & Other
#baul #historicalBaul #pioneeringBaul #baulwomen #baulsaint #legendarybaul #baulartist #BaulGuruShishyaParampara #Baulparampara
"Authentic Baul" #AuthenticBaul
"Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls" #VaishnavaSahajiyaTantricBauls
"Birbhum Baul" #BirbhumBaul
"Nabani Das Khyapa Baul" #NabaniDasKhyapaBaul
"Babu Kishan Baul" / "Krishnendu Das Baul" #KrishnenduDasBaul
"Baul Guru Shishya Parampara" #BaulGuruShishyaParampara #Baulparampara
"Baul philosophy" #Baulphilosophy
"Krishna Kali unity" #Krishnakali
"Raai Raja lila" #RaaiRajaLila
"Real Baul history" #Baulrealhistory
"Baul cultural appropriation" #baulculturalappropriation
"Endangered Baul lineage" #Baulendangeredlineageparampara
Baul and Ramakrishna is only associated with KD Babu Kishan as he is the only Baul to be a monk in the Ramakrishna Mission for 12 years, this is a first and last in Baul.
Baul and Tantra is only associated with Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and KD Babu Kishan, Baul and Tarapith is only associated with them both too. Those others are not Baul as Baul Artist of an non-indigenous Baul is not a Baul but a users, poser, actor trying to remake the already lived lives of this parampara, do you speak the language, do you know what they are singing or who is the owner of the songs, or even if the songs are Baul songs, no you do not, so don't make emotional promotional comments when you do not even understand. You are cheering for a fake Baul and have no clue.
The practice of "Baul Kirtan-anga" Copyright, all songs will be reclaimed that belong to this lineages.
(only this lineage, parampara, no one used Baul kirtan until they read it on this blog, this is downright appropriation and false advertising by fake opportunistic self-titled so-called Bauls for marketing purposes, they have appropriated this lineages intellectual property, it can be proven and must be brought to the attention of the public because they are asking for donations and fundraising for jackpots, awards, grants and are not Baul, their Guru is a fake Baul Guru.
The "Rasa Lila Mystics" this is the only lineage parampara that is Vaishnava and Vaishnava Sahajiya Gosia Chandra Das Baul and Dasi, there is not another, never was. #BaultheRasaLilaMystics
"Baul Tantra Mantra Gopi Yantra". Copyright, no poaching
"The path of the Avadhuta". Copyright there are no other Baul Avadhuta's and that title only belongs to this lineage or singular parampara, there is not another. They make Baul a no name generic Baul while claiming the intellectual property and the already lived firsts and lasts of this lineage. I have documented thousands of misuse of Baul for over 20 years, if you would like to see my research contact KD Babu Kishan, his website is listed throughout this blog and website
"Baul Sahaja is Krishna & Dattatreya Sahaja". Copyright and only mentioned by KD Babu Kishan
The Windcatchers (Vayu Tula). #BaulVayuTula. #baulwindcatchers
#India #lineagebaul #baultantra #baullineage #baulofbengal #babukishan #baulwomen #baulavadhuta #baulsaint #legendarybaul #nabanidasbaul #mirrorofthesky #rabindranathtagor #osho #vaishnavabaul #vaishnavaaghori #baul #baulmusic #tantra #babukishan #baulgaan #nabanidasbaul #purnadasbaul #bengal #india #indianmusic #shantiniketan #baullineage #bengalibaul #baularchive #archivedbaulbn#Baulhistory #BaulofBengal #BaulofBirbhum #dasbaul #Kolkata #Bauldocumentary #baulkirtan #Baulsadhana #ektara #EkachakraBirbhum #gopiyantra #baultantra #NabonidasKhyapabaul #bauldocumentary #baulsangeet #RabindranathTagore #BaulTagore #shantiniketanbirbum #jainitai #jaiguru #NityanandaofEkachakra #BaulAvadhut #Birbhum #Tarapith #Kolkata #IncredibleIndia #India #VaishnavaBaul #TantricBaul #sangeetnatakakademi
"Authentic Baul" #AuthenticBaul
"Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls" #VaishnavaSahajiyaTantricBauls
"Birbhum Baul" #BirbhumBaul
"Nabani Das Khyapa Baul" #NabaniDasKhyapaBaul
"Babu Kishan Baul" / "Krishnendu Das Baul" #KrishnenduDasBaul
"Baul Guru Shishya Parampara" #BaulGuruShishyaParampara #Baulparampara
"Baul philosophy" #Baulphilosophy
"Krishna Kali unity" #Krishnakali
"Raai Raja lila" #RaaiRajaLila
"Real Baul history" #Baulrealhistory
"Baul cultural appropriation" #baulculturalappropriation
"Endangered Baul lineage" #Baulendangeredlineageparampara
The practice of "Baul Kirtan-anga"
The "Rasa Lila Mystics" Raasa leela Mystics, Raas Tattva (this lineage only)
"Baul Tantra Mantra Gopi Yantra".
"The path of the Avadhuta".
"Baul Sahaja is Krishna & Dattatreya Sahaja". #BaulsahajaKrishnaDattatreyasahahaja
The Windcatchers (Vayu Tula). #BaulVayuTula. #baulwindcatchers
#India nendu Das Baul (Gosia Chandra) aka Babu Kishan
