To celebrate the 250th birth anniversary of mystic saint and humanist scholar Fakir Lalan Shah, the nine-day Indo-Bangla Baul Music Festival began in Dhaka.
Lalan Biswas Sangh is organizing the event. This Sangh is a cultural and research organization working to popularize and promote research on the work of Lalan Fakir.
Lalan is revered as a great mystic saint, philosopher and social reformer of his time.
He is considered the most prominent figure of the Baul tradition of Bangladesh and India.
In 1774, he was born in Horishpur in Jhenaidah district of modern Bangladesh.
He had inspired and influenced people like Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam and American poet Allen Ginsberg.
