​Fakir Lalon Shah

  • A nine day long (17th- 26th May, 2024) Indo-Bangla music festival was organized in Sherpur, Bangladesh, to celebrate the 250th birth anniversary of Fakir Lalon Shah.
  • Lalon was a prominent Bengali philosopher, mystic, song composer and social reformer.
  • Born in 1774 at Horishpur in Jhenaidah district of modern Bangladesh, he inspired and influenced people like Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam and the American poet Allen Ginsberg among others.
  • He founded the institute known as Lalon Akhra in southwestern Bangladesh.
  • His songs represent a distinctive tune which has asserted their standing position in the trend of Bangla folk-song as 'Baul ....
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