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We became friends with Nazrul Fakir of Kushtia in our home in Kolkata in the winter of 2012. He first came as our friend Satyaki’s friend. Slowly he started to come on his own; perhaps he felt an affinity. Those days Sudipto was doing his play on Lalon. Nazrul performed in it. So he had […]
Tuntun Fakir of Kushtia in Bangladesh had come to sing at our 10th Baul Fakir Utsav in Jadavpur, Shaktigarh in January 2015. The tenth year was a very special occasion for us, for while it marked a milestone in the life of the festival, for some of us it was also a closure of sorts, […]
In 2019, I concluded this series of trips, by reaching Kunuj and Dariapur and Shailagachi villages, and found the son of one the singers Bake had recorded and grandson of another. Going by boat on the Chalan Beel, it felt like a reward after a long wait, Uday, Shoikat and I said we would go back again, this time to people we knew and not to people we were looking for.
Salamot Khan, who was Salamotbhai to us and was our friend and teacher, lived and died a ‘local man’ in Faridpur, in western Bangladesh in August 2015. Since his death, Faridpur, the place which gave to us some of the best of our songs–Ibrahim Boyati and Habib, Laila and Nuru Pagla, Jainuddin’s jari and Sadek […]
The reasons for calling this sub-chapter Sadhushongo (in the company of the sadhu or the wise one) are many. Firstly, it takes off from a letter Bake wrote to his old teacher and friend, the wise Kshitimohan Sen, in 1955. Kshitimohan had inspired a love for baulgan in Arnold Bake, a musical practice where ‘shadhushongo’ is way of teaching and learning the song. Secondly, I went with the letter to meet my own old and wise teacher, Kshitimohan’s grandson Shibaditya Sen, and he gave me some recordings of Khoda Baksh Sai and others.
How do we listen to the past? How will the future listen to us? ‘The Travelling Archive in East London: Field Recordings and Field Notes from Bengal’, held in the Lower Cafe Gallery of Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Road, London from 22 June to 5 July 2015, was envisaged as an exhibition in sound, text […]
Moushumi will present at a workshop on THE ARCHIVE AS A KNOWLEDGE SITE: THE EXPERIENCE OF EUROPE AND INDIA, Organised by SCTR, JU in association with CNRS, France and IRN-AITIA.
Moushumi spent five days with students and teachers of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai and also spoke at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. Her main talk was on The Travelling Archive
