Bangladesh: Baul Singers Struggle To Survive Amid Onslaught By Muslim Hardliners

By Pulack Ghatack

Singers of the Baul folk tradition in Bangladesh are struggling to survive after more than a decade of physical and legal attacks by Islamic hardliners who consider these artists apostates and heretics.

Bauls – as these wandering minstrels are called in Bangladesh and West Bengal in India – are neither...