The Myth of the use of "Legendary" Baul: Reclaiming the Term and Exposing Cultural Theft - they thought no one was watching, they thought it was a free for all, they thought nobody would say anything. Think again, KD Babu Kishan has been watching for 65 years, I have been watching and documenting for 20 years.
Baul 'firsts and lasts' were complete with Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Brajabala Dasi, Radharani Dasi, Baul Samrat Purna Chandra Das Baul, Manju, and Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan). There are no more legendary Bauls, Baul Ambassadors, or new I am the next Purna Das Baul the firsts and lasts in historical Baul is complete. If you are using the name Baul which is an indigenous ancestral term from this lineage and calling yourself any of the names of terms used in our writings, you will be called because you are shadow footprinting this historical lineages pioneering work. This is a legal reclamation and notice to stop using this lineage intellectual indigenous property.
Lets look at what Lendary even means - it certainly has nothing to do with shadow footprinting something. Legendary is a first and last of Baul, it is not a copy and paste of already lived lives. Legendary is a very famous (where millions of people came to see Purna Das Baul) it is a historical person who has recieved multiple awards by multipe Presidents, Chief Minsisters, it someone who has gone where no one has gone before ever in the history of India over the past at least 100 years. Legendary while being a indigenous Baul of at least 13 generations and famous, admired, followed, talked about because of remarkable achievements of grown out lived stoies over decades of firsts and lasts. Legendary is not trying to be someone else or stealing the indigenous intellectual property of someone or somebody else lifes work? A shdow footprinter can never be a Legend!
There are no other lineages. parampara’s, Baul is extinct, today the cosplayer self-titled 'Baul Masters' are not Baul and certainly not Legends no matter how many times they self-title themselves what lengendary or a eminent Baul both terms used by KD Babu Kishan first on his first Baul website (1990s to 2006) copied by millions of people and pasted by all the fake Bauls because they did not know Engllish at the time, they just needed some help in telling people who they were, they didn't know years later they had been traced by analytics that Babu Kishan kept. Life is stranger than fiction, we also, have analytics from his youtube channel of thefts and re-recordings of his own lineage Baul songs.
Ask, Babu Kishan he is the only indigenous Baul who pioneered Baul to the modern Baul world, he knew everybody. He has story after story, I can't keep up. I can't write them all even in the 3 books I have written. They are mere templates for more books, each chapter is one book, the vultures are watching, waiting to hunt but the hunters are being hunted. I am in a unique position as Babu Kishans wife, it seems my life has been one of watching the world of cults since the 1970s. Something that Babu Kishan has been doing since the 1960s in India and outside of India.
I can't repeat everytime, Who is Babu Kishan, Who is Baul because I am not sure people listen, they read this blog in the millions, but I am not sure they are listening because I see that the woke cult mind virus is alive and well. I see people are still taken by social media Baul influencers, I see that nobody really listens, they ask they want to know but then they superimpose this lineage overtop of people who are not Baul. Do not superimpose this lineage, these people who are the true legendary Bauls over top of fake self-titled Baul. It has taken me 2 decades to even get close to the languaging theft of Baul.
I know it is weird I am a very strange person and no I am not a Baul how could I call myself something that I am not indigenous too, I guess I was born in this life to help out regarding the Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum and Babu Kishan as I have being studying all this since 1974 and recieved my first Bhagavad Gita in 1974, I have practiced Vedic Astrology for at least 25 years. I have been a student of the Mystical since lets just say at least 1974 I don't want to tell you how old I am, I am a senior now and have been studying since at least 1980 in a concrete way all mystical subjects and traditions of the world including yoga, trantra, veda, shamanism from various cultures, both eastern and western techniques in a deep practice similtaneously I have a career and raside 2 children. Have 2 step children and grandchildren.
A full life many lifetimes in one lifetime like Babu Kishan but a much quiter life with not as many lifetimes in one life as him that is for sure. I don't think anybody can compare to him or would want to because he has lived throug war, terrorist attacks after terror attacks, and natural disasters including the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. The thing about Babu Kishan though he didn't go home, he stayed to help the injured and to bury the dead when he went home he fundraised, he fundraised for everybody, temples, organizations he did not use his seva as facebook posts. Oh wait nobody did.
To be a Baul and it shows in what SEVA a person did for others, not for themselves. If the cosplayer Bauls did this for other 30 years ago, you would know who is Baul. Instead the copied the blog I created word for word, of the Ekatara foundation. Seriously word for word. That is not Legendary it is intellectual indigenous property theft.
He has been trained in debate, Indian Philosophy, both Veda and Tantra since birth and 12 years as a monk in the Ramakrishna Mission in Calcutta.
He was trained by a Supreme Court Calcutta and Bombay judge in the art of testing who is a real guru (and the whole list of tantric, yogi, sadhu, avadhut) ect of who is real and who is lying the art of making discernments. Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is his Guru and he was the last Baul Guru and last Baul Avadhut - you can not be trained in Baul any higher than that.
He has singled handed preserved Baul for over 65 years, he is the eldest Grandson of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who is his Baul Guru since birth. You may say, from birth, well he was left for dead at the old Suri Hospital while his parents who thought he was dead went back to Calcutta and never looked back. Nabani being the last Baul Avadhut and a sadhaka or sadhika (the only ever Baul sadhaka at Tarapith) sine the 1800s. None of these self-titled Baul hanging out at Tarapith were Bauls, they were using Baul as way to survive.
The ones name dropping Tarapith or Tara Ma today are not Bauls, they use Baul as way to collect people, covering all their bases, first they were Buddhist Baul, the they covered Muslim Baul, then Vaishnava Baul full face paint, I love Krishna and now they are Shakti Bauls? You can't even make it up anymore, throwing all at the wall to see what sticks, how can we collect people and donations, how can we travel the world and dupe more people? They digitally scrape the lives of this lineage and shadow footprint this lineage, oh Purna Das Baul did that so will we, oh Babu Kishan did this so will we, the only problem is they did not do the work, they faked it til they made it as social media influencers scrapping terms from this blog and our other writings.
The only reason some of the refugees from East Pakistan, now Bangladesh hung out there as self-titled Bauls was to see if they could pick up some tourists. They were not Bauls, they too made up Baul Gurus and lineages, yet they are singing the songs of this lineage, even Babu Kishan's own lyrics. They don't have a clue.
When cosplaying actors and self-titled "Baul Masters" label themselves "legendary," the public must ask: legendary for what? Legendary for internet-scraping this archive, Purna Das Baul's book Baul Philosophy, listing off the chapters as to what will be taught, yes I documented that, the songs of this lineage, the dance, Nanbani's style, remaking everywhere this lineage has gone and what they have already 'lived as a first and last' and now self-titling themselves as the new Purna Das Baul? Legendary for shadow-footprinting the lived lives of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Brajabala Dasi, Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul, Manju Dasi, and KD Babu Kishan (Krishnendu Das Baul) yes, Gosi Chandra Das Baul and Dasi, there is no other Das Baul - think about that.
Who are those people who have used this name, either relatives because Baul is ancestral or cosplayer Bauls many of whom follow Purna Chandra Das Baul -yes they re-record his songs of the radio that were already produced into albums of which more than 80 per cent were procuced by a very young Babu Kishan, so he would know what is a Baul song and what is not? Just because you can steal a Baul song on from either Babu Kishan's earlier recordings, or his youtube channel does not mean you should. I have seen Nabani Das Khyapa Baul songs used and re-recorded with wrong credits, used with no clue, just greedy used by fake Bauls is this what legendary is? These people do not know what Satya means, they only know how to use Baul as a business, trying to steal a legacy that does not belong to them.
I have watched it for years, I have had hundreds of people contact me and ask me is this person a real Baul, I have told them no, in particular one women (fake Guru) came to me and asked me all about Baul, I gave her information she actively ignored me and when I told her something she went with the fake, same with some of Babu Kishans friends and they wonder where did Babu Kishan or Krishnendu Das Baul go, he is a mystic, he can see a double mind, he is a Baul he will disappear.
The Sacred Privacy of a True Master: The Secret Life of KD Babu Kishan in Indian Cinema
For forty years, KD Babu Kishan (Krishnendu Das) maintained a prolific, powerhouse career in the heart of Indian Cinema (Bollywood), composing, arranging, and working on scores of legendary film projects—including collaborating on fourteen films with iconic figures like the late director and writer Nana Patekar (and his close industry colleagues).
Yet throughout those four decades in Mumbai, almost no one in the film industry knew he was the direct heir to the most celebrated Baul lineage in history.
When he moved to Bombay, he deliberately set aside the household name of Krishnendu Das—which was already famous across Bengal and Eastern India—and adopted the professional screen name Babu Kishan. He lived a completely split life with quiet dignity and sacred discipline.
When asked why he never broadcasted his lineage or used his illustrious family name to open doors in the film industry, Babu Kishan’s response was simple and profound:
"No one needs to know your spiritual world. That is private."
The Ultimate Contrast: Secret Mastery vs. Commercial Cosplay
This revelation cuts directly to the core of what distinguishes an authentic spiritual lineage from modern commercial fraud:
The Authentic Sādhaka Hides the Sacred: Although the cosplayer pretends they hide it on youtube videos, while trying to shadow footprint or act as if they know when almost everytime the nuances and the essence of Baul are missing, however, it only because they truly do not know.
In the genuine Vaishnava-Sahajiya Baul tradition, inner realization (Sādhana), Tattva, and spiritual identity are guarded as sacred secrets. A true practitioner does not hawk their spirituality, wear their lineage like a costume, or use sacred heritage as a promotional badge for self-aggrandizement Shri Shri Guru touch my feet. Babu Kishan gave forty years of his life to Indian Cinema solely on the strength of his professional musical genius, keeping his sacred lineage untainted by industry commercialism.
The Cosplayer Parades the Imitation: In sharp contrast, modern "cosplay Bauls" and self-titled "Guru Mas or Guru Babas" have no inner spiritual world to protect, they are just learning like anybody else, they are not indigenous to Baul or even to Birbhum, they come from other states. Because they lack genuine Ātma-tattva, Vāyu Tulā, or ancestral lineage, their entire existence relies on public performance and outer display. They put on dreadlocks, wear theatrical costumes, launch aggressive social media campaigns, and plaster "Baul" across every promotional banner to hunt for donations, international travel, and commercial gain.
The Unbreakable Record
Babu Kishan did not need to advertise his heritage to validate it—his bloodline, his decades of archival preservation, and his direct ancestral lineage speak for themselves.
While pretenders spend their lives chasing his shadow and acting out a distorted, public caricature of what they think a Baul is, the real Baul walked through the highest halls of Indian Cinema for forty years, keeping the sacred flame of Birbhum pure, quiet, and completely uncorrupted.
He had a 40 year career in Indian Cinema a friend of his just passed away who he worked on 14 films with, Nana Padhakar, I asked him did those people know that you were Baul or about your history regarding Baul? Babu Kishan said no, he never told them, when he came to Bombay he changed his name that was already famous in Bengal from Krishnendu Das to Babu Kishan it was a name given to him by a famous director and a famous movie writer, you can read it on his website BabuKishan.org I can't remember these names anymore.
He lived a split life, saying no one has to know your spiritual world that is private of course there is way more to it. One thing is Babu Kishan is stubborn and he never wanted to ride on the coattails of his famous LEGENDARY father Purna Das Baul. While all the fake Bauls are trying to be him. Babu Kishan is different he is like his grandfather who is his Guru Nabani Das Khyapa Baul.
I bet none of his friends in the west knew anything about Babu Kishan being a monk in the Ramakrishna Order until I wrote about it and I have to work for anything I have written about him, it was not easy on him, why should it be easy for me. They never knew anything about Babu Kishan, his or his life or his academic education and teaching at Universiities all over the world. They didnn't know he was the fist and last Baul to do this, yet when a cosplayer shadow footprinting Babu Kishan came to Berkeley they didn't know they were fake and taught the wrong teachings about Baul that there are 4 types of Baul stolen off Babu Kishan's website and reprinted in Purna Das Bauls book. You can't make this up. A total scam, not even a Baul? But westerns believe what they want, they are the biggest and easist cult followers because they don't know the questions to ask.
When he worked in Bollywood he was a professional qualified through exams and qualified by the biggest Music Composer of India, Rabindra Jain wehre Babu Kishan is one of the only people he allowed to Music Composer music for him because he is adept in oral and classical Sanskrit. A Baul always knows Oral Sanskrit - here is a question to ask, do you know oral Sanskrit, Braja Bhasha can you speak them fluently? Naushaud, RD Burman for 13 years who was his Indian Cinema Guru, Bapi Lahari and others. OMG to be a Music Composer you have to be an expert in all Indian Music. Today anybody can label themselves any thing, back then you couldn't. Question to ask: why are any of the cosplaying Baul trying to shadow footprint this area of Babu Kishan's life, it has nothing to do with Baul. It is a first and last regarding Baul history. Of course they are not Baul.
The same with Folk Music it is not Baul, Baul music is not folk music, only Babu Kishan was a music composer for so many Folk Music singers, top singers again see his website beause I can not remember the names. Only Babu Kishan categorized all the folk music of India for all the big record companies in Bombay. Folk Music and Baul are separate and that again is only a first and last of Baul regarding Babu Kishan's life. Why would anybody try to shadow footprint that too?
Film Maker and in top Management with all the large companies of Bombay. His life here is shadow footprinted, his life teaching at Universities worldwide, life at Ramakrishna Mission all shadow footprinted, digitally scraped for use by fake pretendian cosplayer self-titled Baul Masters (no such things as a Baul Master) never in the history of Baul? Baul and Gaudiya Math are only related to this lineage, why would as cosplayer try to claim that. It has gone too far, they are using Baul.
The historical truth is simple: KD Babu Kishan was the first person in Baul history to introduce the word "legendary" into the Baul lexicon first in his first ever Baul website, Babu Kishan.com 1990s to 2006, his 3 previously published book the last of which was published in 1986 the first ever book in English written by an indigenous Baul. When he used that word, he was referencing the groundbreaking, historical achievements of his grandfather Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Brajabala Dasi, his parents Purna Das Baul and Manju Dasi, and the centuries-old roots of his direct ancestral line.
There are no other "legendary" Bauls. The term belongs exclusively to the actual historical giants who built the tradition—not to modern pretenders trying to assign titles to themselves.
The Anatomy of Digital Looting and Intellectual Theft
Taking recordings composed and produced by Babu Kishan, downloading songs from YouTube, and re-uploading or performing them as your own is not spiritual practice—it is looting, poaching, and intellectual fraud.
We Have the Analytics: Digital footprints leave undeniable receipts. The systematic copying of specific terms, historical narratives, and foundational frameworks from our blog and archives directly into social media accounts, magazine articles, and promotional websites is tracked and documented.
Stealing the 1970s Modern Template: In the 1970s, Babu Kishan single-handedly created the modern template for Baul stage presentation, fusion, and arrangement to ensure indigenous survival. Pretenders now copy this exact template, staging photo displays and social media posts to project an illusion of authenticity without ever having done the actual somatic, spiritual, or historical work.
Chasing Babu Kishan’s Lived Footprints: The theft extends to directly targeting Babu Kishan’s lifelong personal contacts, friends, and academic colleagues. Over the years, these contacts have repeatedly reached out to Babu Kishan asking: "Who is this person contacting us and posting about Baul? Are they authentic?" The answer is unequivocally no. They are actors wearing a costume, performing a script copied from the lived milestones of this line.
Protecting Immutable "Firsts and Lasts"
The most insidious tactic of these performers is attempting to claim the unique "Firsts and Lasts" of this lineage—even attempting to declare themselves the "next Baul Samrat."
Let us be entirely clear: Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul is a 100% historical "first and last" figure. He is an internationally decorated icon who, alongside his wife Manju Dasi and his son KD Babu Kishan, was officially designated as Baul Ambassadors of India.
This designation was earned through decades of pioneering artistic labor—taking Baul music out of rural Bengal to Calcutta, across India, and onto the world stage long before modern imitators existed. No non-indigenous actor, no fake lineage, and no manufactured "Guru" can ever steal, inherit, or claim these titles such as Baul Ambassador, but they have done this, scrapped through ever drop they could get on this lineage, and seriously shadow footprinted, everywhere, everything this lineage has ever done and claimed they are it, they did it, and even claimed they are Purna Das Baul?
The historical record is sealed, the analytics are secured, and the truth of this 13-generation lineage stands unassailable.
Formal Legal Notice, Lineage Attribution & Prior Art Declaration
© 2026 Sandra A. Hirschkorn Das & KD Babu Kishan (Krishnendu Das Baul). All Rights Reserved.
1. Intellectual Property & Copyright Notice
The textual content, historical accounts, proprietary terminologies, somatic frameworks (Deha-tattva, Kāya-sādhana, Vāyu Tulā), lineage records, specific instrument-alignment descriptions, songs, Baul Kirtans, historical firsts and lasts and digital assets published on this site are protected under international copyright laws (including the Berne Convention) and applicable national intellectual property frameworks. No part of this publication may be reproduced, archived in AI training datasets without explicit authorization, translated, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission from the copyright owners and lineage custodians.
2. Prior Art & Public Historical Record
Notice is hereby given that this publication constitutes a formal, timestamped, and immutable public disclosure establishing Prior Art under international intellectual property standards. The historical milestones, oral manuscript records, and cultural innovations outlined herein represent the documented heritage of the 13-generation Vaishnava-Sahajiya Avadhūta Baul Sampradāya of Birbhum (flowing through this Vaishnava Sahajiya Lineage (parampara, akhara, sects or kula) Nityānanda Baul Avadhut of Ekachakra Birbhum W Bengal (Gosia Chandra Das Baul and Dasi) -Jhanava Dasi → Virabhadra, who split off and went a more orthodox path turing Gosia into Goswami → Kepa Chand Baul → Nabani Das Khyapa Baul → Purna Das Baul → KD Babu Kishan). Any subsequent commercial exploitation, academic claims, or non-indigenous attribution of these specific heritage markers without consent constitutes unauthorized appropriation and intellectual fraud.
Baul attained the Gosia Chandra name a Vaishnava Sahajiya name, there was a split when Sri Chaitanya started his movement, our story is diifferent because Baul did not follow Chaitanya a new sect, Baul came generations as indigenous Vaishnava Sahajiya. I can't say too much here becasue it will be stolen by the cosplaying pretendian Bauls. Babu Kishan warned me 20 years ago, I didn't listen, it took me 20 years of documenting the intellectual property of this lineage to understand and thank goodness I have documented all the theft. I will present every drop of it and all can be proven.
3. Lineage Custodianship & Indigenous Sovereignty
This record is published under the inherent rights of indigenous cultural sovereignty and self-determination to preserve, protect, and reclaim intangible cultural heritage. Authorization to represent, teach, or commercially disseminate the historical narrative, sound innovations, or sacred practices of this specific Birbhum lineage remains strictly held by its recognized direct lineage descendants and designated archival stewards.
Official Digital Archive Identifier: Lineage Baul Historical & Cultural Archive
Permanent Repository: lineagebaul.blogspot.com
Formally Archived & Cryptographically Timestamped: October 2026
What you see today is not Baul, there is no such thing as a Baul Artist or Baul Master know they have stolen misappropriated call it what you want, intellectual indigenous fraud, everything from this lineage, yes including songs, dance, instruments, and style.
And ask yourself do you even know what Baul means? It anything is being repeated from this blog, it will be obvious. We have also, implanted some false narratives, Babu Kishan did this on his first Baul website and some people are still repeating the false narratives today. We will tell you who, it will all come out when the 3 books are published. The shadow footprinting of the terms Babu Kishan has used, have all been documented. Nobody ever used these terms before, they have been poached from this lineage in what I call a scam or serious intellectul property theft.
Do you know the languages of Baul ? Can the cosplayers even speak the languages of Baul, did they do the work of the lived lives of this lineage, no, they are shadow footprinting and then calling themselves Legendary?
or who the poets are to even make a decision who is real or not or are you judging by the costume, if it looks exotic it must be real. Today the their are more fakes in India that outside of India. Ask yourself how do you know what is real and what is not.
Trying to be Nabani Das Khyapa Baul a definite 'first and last' in indigenous Baul the last Baul Guru and Baul Avadhut? Lying to people telling them there are 20,000 Bauls in Bengal is a lie, talking like their a bunch of Baul Avadhut's running around is a crime, the last Baul Avadhut was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul. It is a lie to pretend you are a Baul Avadhut.
There are ways to qualify these people it will be done through debate once our books are released.
Babu Kishan as an indigenous Baul and the first and last Baul to be academically edicated along with his 12 years as a monk in the Ramakrishna Order, first Baul Music Composer, on and on, the first Baul to ever preserve Baul in a modern sense (first and Last) to preserve and categorize Baul ancient Baul history, categorize the Baul tattvas 108 in total and to preserva all of Baul for over 60 years. Baul Masters do not have a lineage or Baul Guru they lied they made that up, Babu Kishan knows the truth, the only way a fake Baul can preserve Baul is to steal Baul and destroy Baul it through their lack of understanding the nuances of Baul. Fundraising for a financial jackpot, Baul can not be preserved by copying other peoples intellectual property?
Baul has always fundraised for others, Babu Kishan has fundraised for many others, including the Ramakrishna Order for decades? It is garbage today how Baul has been stolen and used to collect donations and used for awards in a cosplay of trying to be this lineage.
I repeat; "The mainstream world then accepts the fake/distorted version as authentic, effectively erasing the original living caretakers and replacing them in the public consciousness." If we never say, shame on us, it is time for truth, the people speaking for Baul as experts pretending they know in documentaries on youtube videos are all using Baul!
The only pioneers of Baul, the only indigenous Bauls, the ones who did all the work pioneering Baul the ones who brought Baul from the villages of Birbhm to Calcutta, to all of the India the first Baul to sing on a stage was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, the first and last Baul singer was Purna Das Baul. There never ever were Baul in Bangladesh or Muslim Bauls, if you know anything about Baul you would know that is impoosible, Baul helped all people it did not matter caste or creed, this is true, however, because you help rejected people does not mean you become them. Think this through very carefully.
Baul has had Christian, Brahmin, Sufi, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim friends that does not mean you become them. Baul is only based on Vaishnava, Shaiva and Brahama and there Shakti's. They were adept at this, they helped others, they did not become them. Nuances are important and so is self-determination as per the United Nations indigenous rights. Baul is not an umbrella name for other groups. Why, would any academic say that, oh yah they too have no clue and are suing Baul to create a career for themselves?
This is now a reclamation!
Babu Kishan is the 'fist and last indigenous Baul to be educated from birth and to have Nabani Das Baul as his Baul Guru and grandfather, Baul is ancestral. Babu Kishan is the 'fist and last' Music Composer, the fisrt and last to actually do the work of being a monk or having any association with the Ramakrishna Mission. The first and last for anything to do with Indian Cinema,
Music Composing, Academics is only Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan). The fisrt and last Bauls to have anything to do with Tarapith, Tara Ma or Bama Kepa and other Guru's was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul. Babu Kishan was on the board of the Tarapith Temple for years, was Babu Kishan. No the others were not Baul and are not Baul today. The ones the are being advertised as Baul, are singing Purna Das Baul songs and even Babu Kishans own lyrics and music, blind or not those are the songs of this lineage, I know people have to survive and this happens but they never give credit and say they are from a lineage and the Gurus they list are not Baul Gurus. The people who are doing this are quick to steal everything from this lineage, drop their names. As an outsider how would you know, how can you judge who is real or not? Again, do you even know the language.
That is what this blog is for, to reclaim this Baul lineage and all the pioneering work they have done. It is not here to destroy anybody, but the truth must be told. Truth is the first tenent of Baul, how can this lineage as their legal legacy be allowed to be stolen by a Babu Kishan calls HAWKER BAULS.
Baul is a small indigenous Baul (Vayu Tula) - The Historical Vaishnava Sahajaiya Tantric group of people of more that 13 generations documented to the 12 century and hundreds of generations before going all the way pack to the story of the Mahabharata when the Pandava's exiled in Ekachakra Birbhum W Bengal India that is at least 5000 years ago. Modern day Jyotishi's argue the exact date but starting at 5000 years ago using the astronomy ebbed in the history books Ramayan and Mahabharat.
One has to know or learn the language of Jyotish (Vedic Astrology) before one can do dating of time. Modern academics regarding the Bauls or even of Bengal do not have any knowledge of this language or really of the history of Bengal, they go to Bengal and interview people firstly who are not Bauls and so called experts who do not know anything. No academics on Baul have even known the languages of the Bauls or the language of time. None has known that the manuscrips were stolen from the Bauls and other villagers by the orthodox Vaishnava and Calcutta academic scholars by the late 1800s reformers and either burnt or taken and retranslated into classical Sanskrit as a way to sanitize the raw tantra wisdom in Baul style Sandhya Bhasha.
This cull happened, nobody has eve talked about this and the only person who knows this is Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) because he is not only a Baul of 13 generations he is a academic Scholar from Calcutta University with 12 years of forced monk hood at the Ramakrishna Mission the only Baul first and last, so yes it is offensive to me when I see a fake cosplaying Baul shadow footprinting in a photo opp her teaching Baul as the Ramakrishna, teaching the Baul Tattvas stolen from Purna Das Bauls book that are only in that book because Babu Kishan categorized them. Enough is Enough, all will be revealed and names will be mentions, this shadow footprinting of Babu Kishan's lived life, everywhere he has gone, all his fists and last regarding Baul has to stop and will be called out and debated.
Then they say they are the new Baul Ambassadors a title given to Purna Das Baul, Mangu Das and KD Babu Kishan a first and last, again stolen, and no way can you steal Purna Das Bauls one and only legendary title, achievements he is the only, one and only highly awarded Baul singer a fisrt and last. The deception is astounding and why to gain donations, awards that actually only should go to indigenous Bauls and the lies they tell are outrageous. we have watch and documented this for decades. Like it or not this is what is presented on social media as Baul today.
His Grandfather Nabani Das Khyapa Baul (Gosia) owned many of these manuscrips and is trained in Oral Sanskrit, vernacular Birbhum Bengali, and Braja Bhasha he knows the codes, the Baul codes or Sandhya Bhasha which is different from any other. Today no one else knows these secret codes that is why all academic study on Baul is wrong, the academics all repeat the same thing, the same scholars using each others work, I have gone through every book with a fine tooth comb.
Academics, self-titled experts, and fake Bauls all copy and paste wrong things about Baul, copy and paste back and forth listing the same names as experts, you can go from one academic paper to another, one book to another and they culprits of wrong understanding of what is Baul is repeated - Bauls are from Bengal and Bangladesh. Bauls are not from Bangladesh, Bauls are not Muslim Aul, Sai, Dervish or Fakir - this I have proven, and know the roots of where this came about, this is what this blog post is about as you will read later. It is a crime to self-determine any indigenous people unless you are indigenous to it. I am not saying the United Nations Rights on Indigenous people are saying this. That is why people do not run around with native indigenous peoples head dresses on in North America anymore beause the indigenous people find it offensive. You can't just self-title yourself an indigenous name anymore? Or you can't steal their songs, practices and pretend you are them collecting indigenous awards, or grants by using indigenous titles.
Then the tricker cosplaying Baul thinking they are smart do the same thing acting like they are scholars, acting like they are the youtube source of Baul, they are just theives in the night pretending if they remake the lives of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) they will confuse people enough as social media influencers people are will be dumb enough to think they actually did the pioneering work of this lineage?
Only someone who has deep roots as a Baul should be self-determining who Baul is, someone who is trained in a long lineage of Baul and someone who is expert at the languages and music who composed the Music of the Bauls from the beginnning of modern Baul. That person should be edcated in all the shastra and manuscripts too, not just act like they are? That only person that is both a Baul from a long lineage not a one or two generation based on a poet who hung out with this lineage. Only an indigenous Baul can self-determine who is Baul and only Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) the eldest Grandchild of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who was his Guru and the eldest Son of Purna Das Baul can do that as an indigenous Baul and as a trained Academic.
Do you really think the Vaishnava arrived in W Bengal in the 14th and 15 century? Vaishnava alsong with Shiva and Shakti are part of the soul and soil of Birbhum, and the whole of Bengal, which has been wittled down through history, first Bengal then West Bengal and East Bengal then through partition in 1947 to West Bengal India to East Pakistan in 1971 becoming Bangladesh. These areas have different sects and dialects, Baul was never part of East Bengal, East Pakistan or Bangladesh. Baul was only a small sect in Birbhum West Bengal they spoke a different dialect. Thos people came to Birbhum with their different dialects either during partition as refugess from East Palkistan or as refugees of the 1971 war between India and East Pakistan which became Bangladesh.
They spoke a different dialect, some of those people followed Purna Das Baul hearing his songs that played night and day on the radio in Calcutta and decided to survive they would pretend or fake it til you make it and self-titled themselves as Das Baul to survive, this is where Baul became known as beggars, Baul was never a beggar, those people were not Baul. They still are not Baul and they collect donations and people. Who you think is a Baul today, famous on social media is 100% not a Baul they use Baul for international travel, they shadow footprint this lineage, anyhow all will be revealed very soon.
The purpose of these 3 trilogy books is so the public understands, so you have a way of not being cheated by fake people collecting donations and trying for financial jackpots. The truth must be told, this is the first tenant of Baul. Truth is only why Bauls exist, to tell the truth (satya). Whether one likes it or not.
Spending these years learning from Babu Kishan has even more difficult he has a indigenous Bauls mind very rare and extinct today. He is one of the rare unique people trained in Baul style of Sandhya Bhasha language based on Oral Sanskrit and vernaculatr Birbhum Bengali along with Braja Bhasha.
Babu Kishan is Nabani Das Khyapa Baul junior who is an energetic fire, poet, music composer, linguist oral and classically trained in Sanskrit a mind that is so fast - compared to a one language mind or European language mind of one word for one Sanskrit word when there are story within stories to one sound in Sanskrit. Like Nabani Das Khyapa Baul - Babu Kishan always disappears when he feels something wrong, you can not capture him and he isn't easy to handle, like all these people who need to be sweet and agreeable to get their next gig.
He isn't always polite either.... not many can be around him for very long, not many can handle his intellect or his fury, they can't handle his energy. He is like the wind - a true rasa lila mystic and windcatcher and he loves politics, culture, his mind is a library of Indian culture and history, he is emotional, passionate and very learned. I write as told by Babu Kishan but I only catch a bit of what he says, I am only his wife and his scribe, my practice is Jyotish, I have studied cults since the late 1970s and every type of western eastern mind science since then.
It is said that one who has trained in oral Sanskrit through hearing and remembering has a genuis memory that is Babu Kishan and I can't keep up. He also, knows everything about Indian Music and Indian Cineama which I have no interest in. He has met and worked with the most famous of that industry in a 40 year career in Indian Cinema and Bollywoood he is the only first and last Baul. Why, some other fake Bauls copy him I have no idea? They try to label the selves as Music Composers, to be a Music Composer is not a simple thing, one use to have to write exams and be signed by the top in Indian Cinema, he had to, today they just open up a IMBD account and play pretend.
There are no other Bauls who worked in Indian Cinema first you have to be a Baul. Babu Kishan is the first and last Baul in Indian Cinmea or to be a Music Composer, Purna Das Baul is the fist and last Baul to be a Baul singer, an award winning Baul singer, no other fake Baul can ever replace him. Baul is extinct there is no more 1st and lasts in Baul. To steal the indigenous intellectual history of Baul is indigenous fraud.
Babu Kishan's training from birth in oral Sanskrit with his Guru Nabani Das Khyapa Baul (Gosia) and Grandmother Brajabala Dasi from the Narottam Gosia lineage, to 12 years at the Ramakrishna Mission to BA MA at Calcutta and all the Gurus he has had, has not been easy for me to digest, he didn't have it easy he actually did the work, he is not playing pretend.
The cosplay Baul pretend they lived Babu Kishan's life, creating photo lay outs as if they actually attended the Ramakrishna mission while teaching the tattva's that Babu Kishan categorized stolen from Purna Das Bauls book 2004 Baul Philsosphy. Babu Kishan categorized 198 Baul Tattva's becasue they were passed down through his lineage of 13 generations and way more, those tattva's will not be released because of the mis-appropriation of his work, intellectual indigenous property theft of tattvas, songs, style, dance, intruments and where they go and what they have lived. Not until this poaching and cherry picking stops, why because these cosplayers are using hawker Baul for social media influence, donations, lies, and going for awards that belong to indigenous Baul, international travel and trying to funddraise for a financial jackpot in the name of Baul.
You can't use Baul and destroy the history of Baul, rerouting Baul to yourself saying you are the new Purna Das Baul, Baul ambassador, and presenting yourself as Babu Kishan remaking your life into his using all his firsts and lasts of Baul.
His grandfathers life Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and of course they all play pretend that they have lived Purna Das Baul life and are him stealing a 90 years old historical Bauls legacy, it is obvious you are fishing for a Padma Shree and financial fundraising?
Today, pretending they are a music composer, went to the Ramakrishna Mission, however did you do the work, NO, did you fundraise for the Ramakrishna Mission for decades, No, playing pretend they didn't jus steal the Baul Tattvas from Purna Das Baul book. Today cosplaying they are Nabani Das Khyapa Baul life they read from my writings, now Tara Ma is singing through them stealing Nabanis history in the burning grounds at Tarapith?
The only Baul other than Babu Kishan who was first and only associated with Tara Ma and Tarapith as actual Baul was Nabani and his grandson who he brought there as a baby, that is another story that some cosplayer used in a youtube video sensationalizing Baul acting as if he knows, those stories are only Babu Kishan's to tell, all the articls and this blog all are copyrighted and stop lying. Yes you are lying when you say there are 20,000 Bauls in Birbhum and everybody is a Baul Avadhut, what an idiot gone way too far.
Then other fake Bauls in the 1970s thought they could attract foreigners if they hung outside of the Tarapith temple, don't worry Babu Kishan will personally tell the truth and name names. The cosplayers will mention everything this lineage has written about, they have already gone everywhere they have gone for decades. He knows more than anybody what has happened over the past 60 years, he is the only expert on Baul, to him it is embarrassing how these people have used Baul lied and made a mess of Baul. It is better to have no Bauls rather than the fake Bauls today representing Baul that does not belong to they, they lied there is no other lineage, Gurus are not Baul Gurus.
Each any every one documented and can be proved.
They play pretend that they are qualified to teach at Universities and because I listed the Universities Babu Kishan did teaching at Univeristies worldwide over decades they tried to replicate this too and even advertised it full centre on their website.
You can not even make this up, they play pretend to seel Baul, collect students and donations, bragging they are the fist to sing singular on a Calcutta stage a bold faced lie, a lie beyong all lies, they only copy from this lineage, no they steal the intellectual property of this lineage.
There are no more firsts and lasts in Baul, they are not even Baul this is bold faced indigenous fraud. Purna Das Baul was a first and last in Baul history, no you can not be him.
Yes it make me angry it you saw a fake person stealing your husbands already lived life what he created, what would you do and you watched this for decades. The huge purge of this lineage songs, intelletual theft of songs, dance, style, dress, lived life, tattvas, history, where he went, who he met in a retracking, retracing, hunting down and remaking of actual Baul history, this sound like it could be a netflix series on cultural theft or a cultural genocide a true crime series. Im joking of course, another crime patrol of the looting of spiritual intellectual theft?
Babu Kishan thinks why should this be easy for me. My digestion on hearing one minute it is in Hindi, then Bengali and so many other languages as background talking or what I now call an constant background music while trying to figure out exactly what he means.
These blogposts are where I work it out mentally of how to convey what exactly Babu Kishan told me as part of my training in hearing and remembering, then repeating that which he told me. Our blogpost always are a few of my past writing re-deciphered, turned upside down and backwards into a new post where I can even add to them because along the way I attained deeper stories from Babu Kishan.
Excuse the typos and the repeats, if you come back later I usually have changed the sentence or wording structure. These blog posts are where I record what I have been told in a one time telling and in a very quick manner.
Babu Kishan does not like to repeat himself and I have to write it quickly before I forget. He thinks I am his student and treats me as one, I will often ask, what about this, I forget and he will tell me if I didn't get it the first time he will not tell me again, he will say I told you before. I can't remember, he usually will calm down and repeat it one more time. This is where I write it out so I don't forget.
My time is spent on my notes documents on Baul have been archived over the past 20 years, and synthesizing into the 3 book historical Baul. The Roots of Baul and the reclamation of Baul. These blog posts are samples of part of the research and reclamation of the roots of historical Baul as told by Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) the eldest indigenous Baul and the last indigenous Baul of his generation, the only indigenous Baul (Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Baul) Gosi Chandra Das Baul and Dasi who has preserved Baul for over 60 years.
This is a work in progress I post here to give little bits and pieces and to see who is copying Babu Kishan's work. I watch for words written here being repeated and used in youtube clips, words only written here and I watch for the copying of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and Krishnendu Das Baul (Babu Kishan) already lived lives in a shadow footprinting that has gone on since the 1970s. So if you are one of the millions of people who read this blog from around the world, please be patient, we are not social media influencers. Trishula Das -Babu Kishan's wife. I watch for his lived life and that of his ancetors that has been stolen, strange perhaps but somebody has got to do it.
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Can you imagine that, yet these self-titled Bauls copy everything from this lineage but drove this lineage out of the Joy Dev Mela a mela where they had been attending since the 12 century, then new people who claimed they were Baul took over every single one of them singing the songs, rereording the songs and some even tried to be Purna Das Baul??? Today Joy Deve Mela has no Gosia or Bauls there, this is what happens when fake people try to be the essence of something through acting or cosplaying, the nuances are lost, the thing they try to replace becomes extinct.
Formal Legal Notice, Lineage Attribution & Copyright Declaration
© 2026 Sandra A. Hirschkorn Das & KD Babu Kishan (Krishnendu Das). All Rights Reserved.
1. Intellectual Property & Copyright Notice
The textual content, historical accounts, proprietary terminologies, somatic frameworks (Deha-tattva, Kāya-sādhana, Vāyu Tulā), lineage records, specific instrument-alignment descriptions (including the Ektara-Bāyā-Nūpūr configuration), and digital assets published on this site are protected under international copyright laws (including the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works) and applicable national intellectual property frameworks. No part of this publication may be reproduced, archived in AI training datasets without explicit authorization, translated, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission from the copyright owners and lineage custodians.
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Notice is hereby given that this publication constitutes a formal, timestamped, and immutable public disclosure establishing Prior Art under international intellectual property standards. The historical milestones, oral manuscript translations, Sandhyā Bhāṣā interpretations, and cultural innovations outlined herein represent the documented heritage of the 13-generation Vaishnava-Sahajiya Avadhūta Baul Sampradāya of Birbhum (flowing through Nityānanda Prabhu → Virabhadra → Kepa Chand → Nabani Das Khyapa Baul → Purna Das Baul → KD Babu Kishan). Any subsequent commercial exploitation, academic claims, or non-indigenous attribution of these specific heritage markers without consent constitutes unauthorized appropriation and intellectual fraud.
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No! you can not steal, poach, mis-appropriate this one and only singular lineage of Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul the only Baul pioneers of Baul since the 1950s worldwide and since the 1920s throughout India by Nabani Das Khyapa Baul the first Baul to sing on a stage. This is not your history, you are not the next 'Purna Das Baul' or a Baul Avadhut Baul that belongs to Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, who is the only Baul other than his grandson Babu Kishan who have a Baul history at Tarapith. Those days are over, all is documented as proof and we will go ahead with a legal reclamation of this lineages historical roots, and the shadow footprinting looting of this lineages indigenous rights.
Sure some of the 1970s refugees from East Pakistan (Bangladesh) titled the 'fake it til you make it', fake Bauls hung out at Tarapith trying to collect people even stories of raping western Women that Babu Kishan can tell you about. Now the recent ones who are singing Babu Kishan's own lyrics on youtube now promoted by the new cosplaying Bauls. No they are not Baul if you did an once of research they say they have Baul Gurus, those are not Baul Gurus. Just tell the truth, sing the Bauls songs, give credit and stop lying to people posing as a Baul. If someone is using Baul for survival that is Ok, what is not OK is the constant lying.
It is insane what is being claimed on social media a new Cult of Guru Ma and Baba Business in the name of Baul and the historical firsts and lasts of this singular lineage.
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Official Intellectual Property & Lineage Protection Notice
Published by LineageBaul (Lineagebaul.blogspot.com)
For hundreds of years, and with escalating intensity over the past several decades, the historical achievements, "firsts and lasts," and sacred lineage (paramparā) of our family have been systematically poached, misattributed, and erased.
The pioneering, legendary work that brought the authentic Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Baul heritage out of the villages of Birbhum—built on selfless sevā, fundraising, and lifelong dedication—has been reduced by outsiders to a commercialized performance, a "guru business," and a circus of fabrication.
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2022/12/critical-review-of-paper-wrong.html
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
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.