Baul (The Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls of Birbhum) are an indigenous ancestral lineage, they are the pioneering Bauls who introduced Baul first to Bengal, then to India and the Globally.
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2025/02/indigenous-identity-theft-indigenous.html
Baul - Reclaiming Indigenous Ancestral Heritage of the Vaishnava Sahajiya Bauls
Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul (Gosia Chand) from the soul and soil of Birbhum and indigenous Baul who is one of the only known disciples of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, he is the eldest of his generation and the only Baul educated in Baul who has preserved Baul over 60 years. The only Baul educated in the academic system withe A BA and MA from Calcutta University, 12 years in the Ramakrishna Mission. An expert in the folk music of India who has categorized all the folk music of India for all the largest Music Companies of India. An inborn and educated Music Composer with a huge body of successful music and lyrics. He is educated in both Indian Classical, Folk, Kirtan, Bhajans, Mantra shastra in many languages including an expert to the highest level in Oral Sanskrit and Classical Sanskrit. He can speak all of the Vaishnava Baul languages, Oral Sanskrit with manuscripts, Vernacular Birbhum Bengali, Baul Sandhya Bhasha he knows the allegory, metaphors, riddles and paradox of Baul, and lastly but not least Braja Bhasha the language of the land of Krishna.
Das Baul and Dasi regarding Baul only comes from this one and only lineage. Many are self-titled Bauls have and are using everything from this lineage. The Gaslighting is over, the indigenous Baul identity theft is over, along with indigenous fraud.
Indigenous identity theft, indigenous fraud regarding the prolification of pretendian Bauls, non-indigenous, non-ancestral Bauls, who have been gaslighting Indian people and the international community using Baul claiming awards and fishing for fundraising jackpots.
There is no such thing as Muslim Baul, Fakir Baul that is the biggest indigenous fraud ever perpetuated for the sake of fundraising millions of dollars in the name of Baul.
An excerpt from the forth coming book.
Historical Autobiography of Baul
The Rasa Lila Mystics
Reclaiming the Indigenous Ancestral Heritage of the
Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls of Birbhum
BAUL TANTRA- MANTRA- GOPI YANTRA, The path of the Avadhuta
(Now watch every Baul will becaome an Avadhut, there is a story behind this? Babu Kishan talks about Baul kirtan, and many other things and it is copied?)
by Trishula S Das as told by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das (Chand Gosia) Das Baul
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Copyright all rights reserved,
Do not copy, reprint, re-say as if you knew, there are a few who have been telling Babu Kishan's personal lived stories, that only he has ever told, this is identity theft and intellectual property theft, copying his life, where he goes, what he has lived bit by bit, copying Purna Das Baul and Nabani Das Baul and making up fake Baul Guru's and Fake Baul lineages (all can be proved and is documented). Unfortunately this is a real thing regarding the new phenomenon of social media Baul?
Appreciation and Appropriation are 2 completely different things.
Perhaps get a job and stop using Baul.
Baul was meant for the villagers of Birbhum, for the indigenous people of the land, it is their birthright, all the work Babu Kishan did preserving Baul, recording Baul was not meant to be stolen by pretendian fake Bauls, who have gaslighted the world faking Baul.
Babu Kishan preserved Baul for over 60 years to lift Baul up, he pioneered Baul outside of India to educate the world about Baul since the 1970's.
Time had changed and Baul had to survive outside the villages, Nabani Das Khyapa Baul was the first Baul ever to sing on stages all over India as part of the freedom movement, he sang for Nehru as an opening act to bring people to Nehru's speeches.
Purna Das Baul is the first and last famous Baul singer Vocalist. Purna Das Baul (Baul Samarat and Padma Shri) has been copied right down to songs, dress, dance style, where he went and what he has accomplished right down to the bone of everything in his life? Copied by all pretendian fake actor Bauls including Das Baul and Dasi which only come from this lineage. These indigenous frauds and indigenous identity theft have never been called out, Pretendian Bauls have played pretend to attain recording contracts, for fame, to travel the world and gain prestige, to collect donation, awards, and for fundraising jackpots? Not one of these pretendian Bauls are even from Baul, most of the copycats have left the planet, a few have created fake disciples who are more viral in their indigenous fraud. The academic sholars have overstated their importance and tried to self-determine who Baul is, they have all been wrong, but they had or have careers based on an indigenous people through copy and paste from one wrong book to another. Academia regarding Baul is mostly colonial and acts as superior calling Bauls illiterate, they do not have a right to self-determine who Baul is, they do not speak the languages, they have never met an authentic Baul.
The indigenous people of Birbhum were connected to this lineage of Baul. Without the villagers there would be no Baul and without the SEVA of the Bauls there would be no villagers. The Bauls were healers, teachers (not preachers) and when the Bauls entered the villages of Birbhum they sang the Hare Krishna Mahamantra to announce their arrival, as a wake up call, wake up, wake up we are here to teach, heal and serve.
Bauls touched the villagers feet not the other way around? They fed people, taught people they came and went unattached just like the wind.
Baul indigenous identity theft, indigenous fraud.
This is a huge topic and one that should have been presented decades ago. However, Baul, the Vaishnava Sahajiya Tantric Bauls of Birbhum has been marginalized as an ancestral indigenous people.
Something to think about the next time you give donations or assist with fundraising jackpots to preserve Baul by pretendian Bauls.
A Baul is never based on 2 or 3 generations based on a poet.
Baul has been preserved already by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das Baul over 60 years.
Babu Kishan's mission and his birthright is to stop indigenous fraud and intellectual property theft of their indigenous songs, style, history, copying and reworking everything this lineage has already lived, creating false narratives as to who these small sect of sweet indigenous people were.?
Baul history is complete, it is insidious how some pretendian Bauls are re-tracking everything this lineage has already lived and taking their names off making Baul random and claiming or making like they are the ones? It is obvious to those that know, but to the people who do not know anything about Baul especially foreigners they achieve a short term social media fame a gain of donations, based on copying everything from this one and only lineage of Das Baul and Dasi. This is indigenous fraud because they act innocent, however, are very organized in their lies with a ambition to attain fundraising jackpots, recording contracts, they use techniques or lies of fake Baul Guru's and fake Baul lineages and unless you were indigenous to Baul, you would not know, you do not speak the languages of Baul or know who the poets are so it is easy for these pretendian fake Bauls to lie.
This lineage has pioneered Baul, recorded Baul songs and have achieved great heights regarding Baul. and gained many awards that rightly so only belong to the indigenous Bauls.
This lineage has accomplished and achieved great fame worldwide, this lineage has already 'been there, done that.' as part of their lived Baul history. remaking already lived history and presenting yourself as if you actually did the work.
Babu Kishan taught at Universities around the world as a representative of Calcutta University, as a cultural representative, he went to University and did the work with a BA and a MA, he was a paid lecturer? This is Baul history, he is the first and only Baul ever to have done this. Yet, this has been copied for a by donation person who is not educated, what would be the point other than trying to re-make Babu Kishan's history and then they taught false narratives. I document everything.
He attended the Ramakrishna Mission for 12 years as part of Baul history and the only Baul to have ever attended University and attended the Ramakrishna Mission. This is Baul history, he is the first Baul and last to attend Ramakrishna Mission or to be associated with the Ramakrishna Mission as his family used to fundraise for decades for them. There is no need for a fake pretendian Baul to copy everything Babu Kishan has completed as part of a first in Baul, Baul is extinct. What is the deal, and trying to pretend they are part of Indian Cinema aka Bollywood for making a youtube video, this is toxic.
Babu Kishan knew Anandamayi Ma and she loved this lineage from Nabani to Purna Das Baul to Babu Kishan that is why Babu Kishan talks about her, his family was always special guest singers and friends at her ashrams around India,.Ma loved their singing.
Babu Kishan composed Music for all the temples in India, that is why he traveled to all the temples in India as a representative of Baul and as a Music Composer, that is Baul history, no Bauls did that.
Back in the day he did not take pictures of his travels it wasn't a thing, today meme of suggested association with Indian Cinema and places does not mean the person had anything to do with Baul, Baul Artist, Baul Master is not Baul, spreading false narratives about who is Baul when you are not even qualified to determine who is Baul or if their Baul Guru was a Baul is not Baul.
There is a real history regarding Bollywood 'Indian Cinema' and Baul and it starts with Babu Kishan to this date he is the only Baul who actually had any association and worked in Indian Cinema for over 40 years. He hasn't even opened an IBdM account, yet some fake pretendian Bauls are pretending, making false associations through youtube videos? I know this sounds insane, but what has been going on, must be called out for the sake of the reclamation of authentic indigenous history of Baul of which Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das is the only Baul to preserve his ancestral lineage for over 60 years, he is the only one qualified both academically, indigenously, in all ways to qualify who is Baul.
One clue, if you see dreadlocks, only Nabani Das Khyapa Baul regarding Baul had jata or dreadlocks, because he lived in nature, where you would go for months and years with the conveniences of modern life.
No Baul women ever wore dreadlocks, this has been carefully constructed to gain attention, Babu can tell in one second who is real and who is fake because he has spent 60 of qualifying Guru's all over India. Dreadlocks today are a game of attracting people. It is part of a costume. This is a trick that works well with foreigners who think oh cool, but now many westerners have taken up dreadlocks too. They are a hairstyles, they are used today in the spiritual Guru business of India to attract, that is it, it does not mean spirituality and certainly does not mean Baul?
If you see the colorful patch work dress, it was designed by Babu Kishan in the 1970's and all fake Bauls thought it was ok to copy everything this lineage has accomplished or done including what other list as Baul Guru's who are 100% not, he copied the songs, dance and Das Baul and even Babu Kishan's dress, he traveled going to places this lineage had contact with and now his fake pretendian Baul disciple does the same thing, lying all the way, now trying to collect fundraising jackpots to preserve Baul when Baul is already preserved, this is not a joke? This is considered indigenous identity theft and indigenous fraud.
All pretendian Bauls copied the 'colourful patch work dress ' guduri that Babu Kishan designed in the 1970's for his famous one and only Baul singer Purna Das Baul (a one off) that all pretendian Fake Baul copied, singing his songs, dressing as him and self-titling themselves as DAS BAUL to attract people and gain recording contracts or trying to attract foreigners and to travel the world?
Baul artists, Baul masters are not Baul, they are not indigenous to Baul and using Baul, they are Baul actors fishing for donations, awards, and fundraising jackpots.
All of the fake and false narratives must be qualified and cleared up, because some of these fakes are fundraising for jackpots, trying to act as authority on Baul when every single youtube video they have done is full of half truths and outright false narratives.
Some creating false narratives and fake thesis have absconded with millions of dollars in financial jackpots collected from the United Nations when they have lied and nobody said anything, perhaps because nobody knows anything in fact about Baul, 100% BAUL IS NOT MUSLIM, ISLAMIC, FAKIR ECT?
This has gone on for far too long. The only people that can self-determine an indigenous group or people are the indigenous people themselves, they lived it, they have at least 13 generations documented. Never should fake pretendian Bauls even be entertained they have already committed indigenous fraud, enough is enough. No academic scholars should be entertained as even knowledgeable or have the self-determining power to tell who is Baul, they all have been wrong.
The United Nations Rights of Indigenous People states that an indigenous person has the right to SELF-DETERMINATION. Time has changed.
Stop the generic randomizing of Baul making Baul generic, creating fake Baul lineages and fake Baul Guru's.
Bauls have names, this is Babu Kishan's aka Krishnendu Das (Baul's) words. Do not use or repeat on youtube channels as if you actually know, telling the stories taken from out blogs, talking about Nabani and teaching at Tagore's University, this is only told by Babu Kishan. You acted like it was your wisdom while trying to sell to your audience, come and join us, there are 20.000 Bauls left in Bengal, so that you can fundraise in the name of Baul, your video is deceptive and you have committed intellectual property theft and indigenous fraud. This lineage only is Vaishnava Sahajiya and Das Baul and Dasi, this indigenous fraud using everything from this lineage, their stories while taking the names of the people who lived these Baul lives. You fake Baul Guru and fake lineage will be called out and so will you. Enjoy it while you can!
Saying there are 20,000 Bauls left in Bengal is a lie and indigenous fraud.
Baul has been used by non-indigenous Baul for fake fundraising jackpots, this is indigenous fraud and identity theft.
Baul has been preserved over 60 years by Babu Kishan, there is no need to preserve Baul especially by a fake pretendian actor, or so-called self-titles master Baul, this can all be proven without a shadow of doubt, the wrong people have been representing Baul.
There is no such thing as a Baul Master, there is only Baul Guru and many who have used this title over the past decades are not Baul Guru's, but copycats, riders on the coattails of this one and only lineage or Baul Guru Shishya Parampara Sampradaya, Guru to student in oral Sanskrit with manuscripts. Bauls absolutely know who the poets are.
Here are a few experts from Babu Kishan's new book to be released soon! (copyright) 2025
Perspective
Reclaiming Baul heritage and already lived Baul history.
The way forward for the Bauls as far as the legacy and Cultural Heritage, this only pioneering lineage has brought Baul to all of Bengal and worldwide. The need now is for accurate preservation for future generations. The lies, indigenous fraud and identity theft full of false narratives cease and desist.
Each moving parts regarding self-titled pretendian Bauls, and academic scholars needs to be qualified accurately both in the western academic sense of exegesis and in the Indian philosophical systems of Purva Paksha and within Mimamsa Philosophy and the person qualifying must be an expert and an indigenous ancestral Baul, and be qualified academically in both Indian Music, Classical and oral Sanskrit, in Bengali vernacular Birbhum dialect of Bengali including the Bauls own secret coded language of Sandhya Bhasha laced with Baul metaphors, allegory, riddle and paradox and in Braja Bhasha the language of the Krishna.
One must be qualified by questions as to their nature of understanding what and who is Baul and not just by reading this book, there are many secrets that are not told in this book and that Babu Kishan holds close to his chest. Babu Kishan has been trained and is an expert in all of Indian music including Baul, folk, Kirtan, bhajan, Indian Cinema, he knows who the poets are and who is lying. He has preserved Baul and written books on Baul over a 60 years period at the very least.
One must first of all be indigenous to the land of Birbhum, born there, lived there and understand all the different sects of the region. Bauls are not from middle class families from other parts of India? The days of random people claiming they are Baul based on one generation or 2 generations based on a single Vaishnava or poet is over.
The Cultural performance Bauls do play a role in the heritage of Bengal and especially Birbhum W Bengal. The people who are using Baul lying and creating false narratives need to be qualified and weeded out. There is no place for false narratives or liars regarding Baul. There is no place for the ‘fake it til you make it’ or the Ma or Baba business has no place in Baul today. The so-called, self-titled Bauls however, do need a deep education, if they do not know, stop lying and making it up.
The following is presented in the book. I still have editing to do, but this is a preview of what is to come.
Pretendian Bauls
Fraud and identity theft are erasing indigenous Baul, by replacing indigenous Baul?
The Pretendians is a documentary made in Canada that gives a clear picture of the seriousness of the subject of pretendian you are something that you are not. “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.” This has happened to Baul, they have been erased by fake Bauls who have distorted Baul which is an indigenous tradition, lineage based on ancestry.
https://www.knowledge.ca/program/pretendians
https://globalnews.ca/news/9450313/pretendians-canada-indigenous-ancestry/
The wokism of the world has allowed people to self-identify as cats, and dogs? People self identify as yogis, music composers which is the PHD of music, and every indigenous group in the world. The problem with self-identification with indigenous Baul or perhaps any indigenous group has taken away the self-determination and opportunities of these marginalized groups. When the indigenous people are not the representatives of their ancient ancestry and they are replaced by outsiders who merely copy their dress, style, songs and narratives, the survival of these groups is extinguished because the essence is not present.
Moving beyond self-identification
"While the revelation of Bourassa’s identity fraud brought tremendous hurt and feelings of betrayal to the Métis and broader Indigenous community, we did not anticipate our complaint would transform identity politics.”
In Canada, universities, governments and other agencies are now implementing ancestry-verification policies. Individuals are required to show proof of membership, connection or citizenship to an Indigenous community when applying for opportunities reserved for Indigenous Peoples.’
Those opportunities reserved for indigenous people include grants, funding, awards, prestige and opportunities specifically set aside to help marginalized communities who are indigenous.
“There are two kinds of fraudsters, according to Teillet: fabricators who invent Indigenous identities whole cloth and embellishers who exaggerate some perceived connection.
Some embellishers bolster their claims using the results of DNA tests showing small percentages of Indigenous heritage. Others exploit unverified family stories about a distant Indigenous relative. Whatever kind of identity fraud they’re engaging in, they generally lie to get ahead professionally.
Maybe they want an Indigenous award or grant or acceptance into networks that are closed to them.
Such fraudsters exploit affirmative action initiatives or diversity, equity and inclusion protections,” says Teillet.
As an Indigenous applicant, the person could be accepted into law or medical school when they’d otherwise be rejected. And sometimes, the motivation is even simpler: “They want something that makes them unique and different, and this gives them a chance to say they’re special,” Teillet says.
https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/gill-sisters-pretendian-fraud/
“Their adoption of Indigenous identities allows them access to jobs, money, and opportunities that are set aside for Indigenous people. Pretendians raise issues with respect to employment/labour law, charter, and privacy issues. It also calls into question recent Supreme Court of Canada case law. These identity issues – whether it is an individual right to identify as Indigenous, whether the Indigenous nation has any say, whether there are any necessary requirements to claim an Indigenous identity – are very much in the spotlight as writers, filmmakers, lawyers, and academics are exposed in the press for having little or no right to the Indigenous identities they have been claiming. Some have made these dubious claims for decades and have built fame, prestige, and careers on them.”
“What a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive — that’s what happens. They get tangled up in their own stories,” said Teillet, who is the great-grandniece of famed Metis leader Louis Riel. Teillet’s report examined the harm caused by Indigenous identity fraud, outlined red flags for spotting potential deceit and suggested measures to prevent it. It came in the wake of a series of controversies over claims of Indigenous identity by prominent members of Canadian academic, literary and entertainment circles in recent years.” Canadian Lawyer Jean Teillet LLP
History of Pretendian Baul since the 1970s.
This lineage is based on powerful ancestral Sanskrit poets sadhaka’s (male) and sadhika’s (females). A Guru Shishya (student) parampara sampradaya lineage based on indigenous (of the land) soul and soil of Birbhum W Bengal India. As an indigenous people of Hinduism or Sanatan Dharma Vaishnava Sahajiya Baul Gosia Chand Das Baul and Dasi has been passed on through an ancestral lineage a succession or uninterrupted line, string, thread of Baul (Vayu Tula) wisdom and knowledge from one Guru who are family related, lineage means ancestral line, of great, great, great, 13 documented generations of grandparent in the oral tradition and because it is an indigenous oral tradition it is difficult to trace back to the beginning of the story.
However, Bauls are indigenous in every way, they are not tribals but indigenous to Hinduism the eternal path of natural Sahaja spirituality of India. The stories and techniques (tantra’s) trace back to the historical itihas of Mahabharata and Ramayana which is dated using modern multiple techniques thousands of years before western academics have a concept of. Western academics have only a concept western civilization and western time.
Bauls use sampradaya in a sahaja way, natural and spontaneous, not in an orthodox way. Baul is family ancestry based through a family line (parampara) through a spiritual Kula sect (sampradaya) in Akhara’s, not ashrams. They are Tantric Bhakti Spiritual Baul Siddhas adepts.
This lineage when they started their pioneering cultural programs outside of India brought many musicians who were not Baul along with them. In their early travels pioneering Cultural programs to Europe and USA these musicians were not Baul. However, the strangest thing happened when they arrived back to Calcutta, the musicians decided to self-title themselves as Das Baul and attract western tourists, and anybody who would listened, this became their chance as self-titled Bauls to take a share or even compete with the fame that of Purna Das Bauls on their western travels.
However, Purna Das Baul was the first famed Indian Vocalist to sing all across the world as this lineage friend Ravi Shankar was the first sitarist to travel the world, Purna Das Baul was the first Indian singer starting in the 1940's as the first Indian vocalist to represent India worldwide. Manju Das (Purna Das Baul's) wife was the first Indian woman vocalist.
All pretendian Baul followed Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan proceeding with copying their songs, style, where they went, and even today reworking their stories to fit Babu Kishan's already accomplished lived life, with pretendian they are teaching at University and the Ramakrishna Mission, yet Babu Kishan is the only one who has taught at Universities around the world because first he is an indigenous Baul and is qualifed with a BA and MA from Calcutta University and secondly he attended the Ramakrishna Mission for 12 years, this is his history, he lectured and taught at the British library for decaded and now we see this has been copied by a fake pretendian Baul with a fake pretendian Baul Guru and fake Lineage. This must be called out because it is indigenous fraud.
The pretendian Bauls copied Purna Das Baul and then Babu Kishan’s pioneering spirit of modern Baul, everything was copied and watered down, this was their chance, they just had to copy everything this lineage did and people believed them. This book is about throwing the watered down versions and lies as to who Baul is and the indigenous Baul reclaiming their history and stories and right of self-determination.
It became popular and a good begging business in Birbhum and even Calcutta to pose as Bauls sing a few songs and make friends with foreigners, these are the ‘fake it til you make it’ pretendian Bauls.
Today many people ask Babu Kishan, is that person a Baul they told me this and that? Babu Kishan always says, no they are not Bauls but posing as Baul. He knows their stories and knows who they are. Many of the pretendian Bauls self-titled themselves as Das Baul and told many westerners and Indians that they were Baul. They proceeded to make up stories using many of this lineage's contacts and where they had been followed acting as if they were Baul?
Many pretendian Bauls followed this lineage to the west, they came first as musicians, but decided Baul was a good business? They started to tell people they were Bauls and attracting people to Baul. Unfortunately, no one outside has ever qualified them or should I say knows how to know who is Baul and who is not, there has been so many lies over decades and false narratives printed and spoken. However 40 years later a whole new group of 'pretendian Bauls' is now trying their hat at being a Baul singer, or now a Baba or Ma. To be a ancestral indigenous Baul is not easy or simple, being a Baul is way more than any PHD? The pretendian Bauls knew no one could qualify them, and went along their way ‘riding on the coattails’ of this one and only indigenous Baul?
Seriously you can not make this up, and why would we?
Baul history and her-story were complete a decade ago.
Upon arrival home in the 1970’s the (musicians) who accompanied this lineage of Baul and were invited on these pioneering trips were musicians (not Bauls). However, many started to call or self-title themselves as Baul, dressing as Purna Das Baul, and singing all of the music that Babu Kishan composed for his father Purna Das Baul in the 1970's. Babu Kishan composed over 80% of Purna Das Bauls most famous Baul songs.
These Baul songs produced, composed and recorded by Babu Kishan were all famous and heard constantly on the radio. Purna Das Baul was a super duper famous Baul singer and Babu Kishan worked with a dogged determination to gain the love of his father.
Back in the day when there were no computers, his contacts were made through the mail at least he could write in English, no other Bauls wrote or spoke English which made it difficult for indigenous Baul to climb out of the village of Birbhum, it made it easy picking for the more tricky desperate pretendian Bauls to take advantage of the fame this lineage had.
Ashok Fakir came with Purna Das Baul and Lakshman Das Baul on their first trip to America and disappeared and never went back to India he self-titled himself a Baul and went on and had a family in California before crossing the border into Canada, he was not a Baul as he was an English translator at the American Embassy in Calcutta and on this first trip acted as manager and translator for the Bauls first trip to America in 1967.
Babu Kishan was in touch with Ashok Fakirs family in California in 2009 his x wife said she had all sorts of photos of Nabani Das Khyapa Baul and Babu Kishan was excited thinking he could reclaim some of his family photos, when in telephone conversations she said, Ashok Fakir was Baul and Babu Kishan told her no he was not, she never talked to him again. This is the way of the world.
Everything was done snail mail as telephone was too expensive, although when Babu Kishan moved to Bombay and worked for CBS India he had more contact directly with many people especially Bob Dylan who he tried to bring to India, however, Bob Dylan has never been to India, his brothers NDTV interview was a complete manipulation and lie? Babu Kishan is the person who released all of Bob Dylan’s music in India and Asia, he used to talk to Bob Dylan all the time from Bombay and in America. I have no idea why anybody is saying or claiming Baul and Bob Dylan without mentioning Babu Kishan. After all, they were not one-time friends. Babu Kishan toured with Dylan and The Band all over the USA in 1985.
His Dad initially met Bob Dylan in 1967 and had no long friendship with him, Lakshman Das Baul only met him in 1967 and never saw him again? Such as people who are considered as knowledge about Baul are generalists and will repeat the same generic garbage because they are writing sensation book always leaning to sexual secrets but are just random books or generalizations such as Baul even associate with Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg, no random Baul did not, there are specific people with specific stories, random generic Baul and using their lived stories taking their names off is insidious.
One such book and a copy and pasted author as an authority on Baul is the Path of the Mystic Lover, it is a no name book created to attract attention, I mean who wouldn’t be interested in a Mystic Lover, Bhaskar Bhattacharyya I went through this book, it leans towards sexuality which is a drop of the Bauls life. Don’t waste your money there are only drops of truth but no real connection to what Baul means or what Baul is really all about, it is generic hearsay, I have seen many quotes in academic papers, which Babu Kishan calls copy and paste.
Babu Kishan employed his own inborn musical genius, talent, emotion, creativity and hard work into composing Baul music, tunes and lyrics for Purna Das Baul’s and these songs become his fathers most famous songs. All of these songs were copied by pretendian Bauls as if they were their own and had a right to take and use anything they wanted just because they self-titled themselves as Baul? The insidious part is they were appropriated by fake pretendian Bauls, and re-recorded as if the songs, tunes and lyrics belonged to them, this can be proven and must be qualified because this has gone on for too long?.
Nabani Das Bauls poetry and even Babu Kishan’s own poetry and the songs of this lineage and their ancestors, have been re-recorded, even today with no integrity but self entitlement by pretendian Bauls who have taken Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul and Babu Kishan’s name off and this lineages names off claiming the songs as their own from their own made up fake Baul Guru’s.
Now these pretendian Baul are self-titled as Baul Masters, there is no such thing as a Baul Master, there never has been, there is only Baul Guru and Nabani Das Khyapa Baul is the only example of Baul Guru, he is the last authentic Baul Guru.
The pretendian Baul took credit by omitting this lineage's names, and replacing then by singing this lineages songs all recorded and sang on Bengali radio, copying this lineaeages style of dance and their dress including the colorful patch work dress designed by Babu Kishan?
The pretendian Bauls presented themselves as Baul, to make recording contracts, to travel the world while, 'RIDING ON THE COATTAILS' OF THIS ONE AND ONLY LINEAGE OF BAUL' promoting ‘fake Sri Sri Sri Baul Guru’s’ Baul does not over state anything?
Making their stories up has led to utter chaos and confusion of who Baul is, including Baul does not come from families, Baul is from Persian, Uzbekistan, or Turkey pathetically. They recorded their songs including many that were Nabani Das Khyapa Baul songs and Babu Kishan's own poetry, copied directly off their youtube channels and previously recorded records of which over 80% of his fathers Purna Das Baul songs were recorded and paid for by Babu Kishan aka Krishnendu Das, won't this be called intellectual property theft?
Babu Kishan created Baul Fusion in the 1970's many recordings with the top musicians and singers in the world and top musicians in Indian Cinema, however, 2 decades after he created Baul fusion, pretend Bauls are claiming they created Baul fusion? Seriously, this is deception and intellectual property theft, he helped many of these pretendian Bauls yet, it is so easy for them to claim all the work that Babu Kishan already completed? He helped extensively many of these now lauded fake Baul Gurus, he knows their whole story that their pretendian Baul students are lying about. Babu Kishan knows them all, he knows all the fakery and the tricks. He reluctantly is speaking out only because it has gone too far.
Today each new pretendian Baul has a new so-called Baul Guru. Much discernment and education is necessary. Baul Guru’s are very specific and none of the names they mention are actual Baul Guru’s. People who were not from Baul.
Their audacity is truly astounding. I guess it is similar to what is going on in the west: all the yoga teachers are mere fitness teachers? This truly is Kali Yuga, the time period we live in now, that is considered the post truth era, what is real is seen as fake, and what is fake is seen as real.
The pretendian or fake Baul followed everything this lineage had already completed, but because they were and are desperate to survive, or be an authority on Baul, perhaps a Baba or Maa, they took this lineage's name off, following them around the world for decades. Babu Kishan has observed this for over 60 years as he created the template for modern Baul, through composing music and recording the songs, designing the colorful patchwork dress, and teaching at Universities. However, he did not expect so many random people to appropriate Baul, and feel entitled to their intellectual property too?
Many of the pretendian Bauls have come and gone and are all documented liars and fakes, sorry to say this. I have kept transcripts of their narratives over an 18 year period documenting all their inconsistencies. Babu Kishan helped many of these pretendian Bauls freely, because that is what a Baul does, this is what Nabani and Brajabala taught Babu to help all, feed all, love all. He just did not expect they would delete the indigenous Baul and replace them with lies and fake Baul Gurus.
What is happening to the indigenous Bauls is also happening to the sacred land of Birbhum W Bengal.
The land is always connected to indigenous people, Baul is part of the land in Birbhum, when the roots of the land are cut, so are the roots of the Vaishnava Bauls of Birbhum.
When the roots are cut the tree of Baul and the roots of the land change and eventually die, with the marginalization of Baul and the usurping of their history, stories and lived lives these replacement 'fake pretendian Baul have cheated' indigenous Baul of their livelihoods of the indigenous right of self-determination.
Indigenous fraud is perpetuated by a replacement theory, basically faking Baul to attain recording contracts, fame, donations, fundraising jackpots, awards, international travel and assistance designed to support indigenous Baul, but usurped by outsiders, not born of the land.
These pretendians have created huge false narratives, saying come and join us, when Baul does not collect people. They have relentlessly lied saying their are 20,000 Bauls left in Bengal that need to be saved, give us your donations and financial support? Do NOT, this will all be made clear and revealed.
These false narratives, speculation and claims have reached an international audience and have done grave damage to Baul. The Pretendian Baul and academic scholars have pulled this fakery off for decades, they have GASLIGHTED the entire world. It is ridiculous, I believe in radical transparency, and thus, radical transparency.
(Bauls) Vayu Tula, known as the Vaishnava (Gosia Chand) Sahajiya Tantric Bauls of Birbhum W Bengal India. The only Bauls who introduced Baul to all of Bengal, all of India and pioneered Baul Worldwide. The copycat, fake pretendian Baul, gaslighting Baul time is up.
There have been too many false narratives, generalization, speculations and outright lies. Too many pretendian know it alls, self-titled pretendians so called experts and Baul Masters who make it up and fake it as they go?
Bauls have specific names, the poets have specific names and these names have been washed away, some pretendians will tell you Baul does not care who the poets are? This is the first sign that the pretendian fake Baul, is a fake Baul and using Baul.
They lie to be included in Baul, they make up fake lineages and fake Baul Gurus. The biggest thing they do is make Baul generic and random, by saying Baul received a Padma Shri, you can not claim that too, that Baul has a name Purna Das Baul and he is an indigenous Baul., act out everything from this lineage and take their names off. This is a serious indigenous fraud. It will all be qualified after the book is released and when Babu Kishan starts his talking, nothing will be left unqualified and revealed.
Over the past 100's years Bengal has suffered many horror shows through their turbulent history of colonization by Islamists, British, the traumatic partition of Bengal into East Pakistan, famines, war, communism and poverty. War that created Bangladesh for Muslims, however, they are now flowing over the borders into Birbhum which was a Hindu land full of brilliant Hindu culture and a history going back to the Mahabharata War. Over hundreds of years land of Birbhum has changed once again. The Bauls since the beginning of time were the indigenous Hindu's of the land, the people who kept Dharma alive in Birbhum West Bengal India.
Slowly dharma and the indigenous Bauls have been washed away. I have heard stories of how Muslims bury their dead on land owner’s land and if not caught in time the Muslims claim the land.
Muslims build on land owned by others with no permission. The land is now filled with ghosts, instead of purified by the Bauls who upheld Hindu dharma.
Some are trying to change this, but there needs to be a big shift, time will tell. Bengal and Birbhum the Shakti Bhakti Baul place of the world will soon be a Muslim place.
Over the past 20 years a different generation of pretendian Baul who call themselves 'Baul artists' and 'Baul Masters' ?? are coming from middle class families, adding to more reductionism and watering down of indigenous Baul down to oblivion.
These pretendian Bauls are taking credit for everything already accomplished and lived by the indigenous Bauls? Gaslighting all that listen to their videos worming their way into already lived Baul history, trying to remake lived Baul history? They are busy fundraising, obtaining awards that belong by indigenous Bauls and traveling around the world posing as Baul?
Baul are indigenous people who are grossly misunderstood and marginalized. The indigenous nature of the Bauls provides the indigenous Bauls with indigenous rights of self-determination and these rights should only remain in their hands.
This one and only lineage did not spend at least 13 generations recorded and many generations before to have fake pretendian Baul actors come along and take their intellectual property, style, dress , Das Baul and Dasi and songs when they are not one even one generation making up fake Baul Gurus, who copied this whole lineage including their songs, dress and Nabani style, and exactly where they went, meeting with their contacts while stealing the intellectual property of this lineage?
Babu Kishan’s dedication is a prayer and a promise he made in the 1960’s to his Grandparents (Gurus) Nabani and Brajabala and he has been faithful to the promise to preserve accurately who and what Baul is because after some time the Baul ancestors will come back to earth. Nabani was always against fake people, fake Bauls and people who used what did not belong to them. He was authentic and rare and his wish given to Krishnendu aka Babu Kishan was to tell it as it is, be always truthful, never lie even if you lose everything. This book is about correcting so many untruths about this one and only lineage of Baul.
The pretendians will say, ‘Baul was associated with this lineages personal stories and the names of people this lineage only associated with’ or worse stealing songs from Babu Kishan’ youtube channel or in the past copying everything directly from (1990s to 2006) first ever Baul website BabuKishan.com or Babu Kishan’s blog. Using what they read on our blogs and website then name dropping the stories that only Babu Kishan has told and can only be known through Babu Kishan?
Taking the names off of the people who lived the stories using those names as if they are experts, making the names and stories random as if they knew? No you did not, you cheated and read our websites and acted on youtube as if you knew, name dropping. This is insidious and who does this is not Baul and never will be, they are using Baul to travel the world and collect people's awards trying to compete with the names and stories from this lineage for personal fame and fundraising?
https://lineagebaul.blogspot.com/2022/06/how-writers-create-false-narratives.html
It has been known that some Bauls even tracked down a Rolling Stones to show they have tea with a Rolling Stone when it is only this lineage and mostly Babu Kishan who had anything to do with the Rolling Stones?
Purna Das Baul in 1971 with his family in London flew to Nice France and then recorded at Mick Jagger's home. Babu Kishan first met Mic Jaggar when he was about 9 or 10, but decades later through his other musician friendships met them many times, jammed with them and was instrumental in bringing them to Bombay in 2004. These are specific stories, not a story that any Pretendian Baul has anything to do with?
FYI, for your information, right up front; it was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who first Baul ever to sing on stages while doing his part in the freedom fighting of an independent India under Nehru he was his opening act to draw people to his speeches around India to draw people to Nehru's speeches as the state of Bengals ‘pied piper’ Baul singer. No Bauls ever sang on stages until Nabani then Purna Das Baul. Nabani could draw millions of people.
If you are bragging about the singing on the biggest stages you sang on, fyi it is only this lineage who created singing on stages, it is part of their history, the pretendian Bauls merely copied. This lineage sang on the biggest stages as main attractions.
If you are traveling the world, or even bragging about teaching at Universities you are copying Babu Kishan. He is the first and last Baul to teach at Universities starting in the late 1970’s and only because he went to a University? He is the first and only qualified Baul to teach Baul, Indian Music, Sanskrit and Indian Philosophy at the University level as a lineage indigenous ancestral Baul.
As an Indian Philosopher, Musicologist and Music Composer by profession, this is intellectual property theft, copying everything that Babu Kishan already lived and completed in Baul history and her-story including the women of his lineage such as Brajabala Dasi, Radharani Dasi and his mother Manju who was the only Women Baul to travel the world, she was an accomplished Indian Singer by profession and the first Indian female vocalist to travel the world as a Baul singer.
Baul is complete, indigenous Baul does not need any fakes or made up pretendian Baul actors creating false narratives.
Before Babu Kishan it was Nabani Das Khyapa Baul who taught for Rabindranath Tagore at his University in Shantiniketan, yet western Bauls write Nabani was illiterate, this is what happens when you take 2nd hand information and brag about it in books. Nabani was an oral Sanskrit scholar with many sanskrit manuscripts he associated with some of the most intelligent Sanskritists of his time, he was poet who knew, oral Sanskrit with manuscripts, vernacular Birbhum Bengali, Sandhya Bhasha and Baraja Bhasha that is not illiterate. He could converse in many Indian languages as he traveled the continent. The academic scholars are sometimes classically western University trained that does not make one an expert, these people can mostly only speak English and they have the gaul to call Nabani illiterate?
They have no right to speak about Baul or self-determine who indigenous Baul is?, Yet pretendian Bauls and western academic scholars are fundraising in the name of Baul? Armed with a fake lineage of people who are not even from Birbhum?
The first thing you have to know is who is an authentic indigenous Baul and who is using Baul? This book hopes to help those who are interested be able to qualify who is Baul and who is not from an academic viewpoint of an indigenous Baul who actually did the work, instead of someone posing as Baul giving out false narratives that have reduced and watered down the authentic indigenous ancestral Baul.
I laugh, but not really as the pretendian Bauls have already copied Baul by reading our websites and blogs, poaching stories from our blog that nobody has except Babu Kishan knows and repeating these stories on their youtube channels, as if they know, this is insidious and another type of fraud that has gone on for too long. We live in a ‘post-truth era’.
This is the biggest danger to all indigenous worldwide.
I can not understand why some pretendian Bauls copy everything Babu Kishan has accomplished or written over 6 decades, taking each and everything he has done, even trying to have association with their friends, trying to cover everything and everywhere he has gone, and accomplished, even opening an Indian Cinema account on IMDB, when Babu Kishan is the only Baul to have a 40 year successful career in Indian Cinema at all the highest levels in music, film and management?
The only reason I can assume is they are trying to re-make or compete with already accomplished Baul history. Awards regarding Baul should only go to the indigenous Bauls not to outsiders posing as Baul. There is just something no right with what has gone on certainly over the past ten years, however, going over the history of Baul over the past few decades when the fakery began, and it just became more obviously viral.
Baul has nothing to do with Indian Cinema that was Babu Kishan’s career, especially when someone is pretending to be a Baul? I have watched for 18 years how some try to mark their territory, like a dog peeing marking their territory to cover every corner of Babu Kishan’s life, while copying his father and grandfather both a one time historical Baul. Copying Purna Das Baul and Nabani Das Khyapa Baul life, songs, style and their history. Their history is one time thing. However, when this turns into intellectual property theft, and lies, it becomes insidious and this must all be called out and qualified.
If you are using the indigenous title, Das Baul or Dasi in regards to Baul aka The Vaishnava Sahajiya Bauls of Birbhum the original and only lineage of Baul either you or your fake Guru lied to you. 100% they are not Baul based on a one generation poet, you have to have at least 4 or more generations of Baul at the very least. Satya or truth talking is the first tenant of Baul.
This lineage has brought Baul out of the villages of Birbhum, to all of Bengal, to all of India and then worldwide starting over 100 years ago in recent history. This book will explain, indigenous proof of how Baul was usurped right underneath them, and today hardly anyone knows who Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul or who Krishnendu Das Baul aka Babu Kishan is because their names have been deleted or merely used on youtube to overstate how much you name drop, when we know it was copied off our blogs and websites?
This lineage has never followed others, others have followed them, it used to be Ok, however, we know that indigenous people only have the right to self-determine who they are, it is no longer ok and the first tenant of Baul is Satya truth, tell the truth, be honest.