Sudheer Palsane is a Mumbai-based freelance cinematographer whom Moushumi met in 2001 on the sets of Tareque Masud’s feature film Matir Moyna (The Clay Bird). Sudheer worked as cinematographer for the film and Moushumi as music director. A 1989 graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, Sudheer mainly shoots documentaries and feature films and he has won […]
Rangan Momen, a London based Bengali, runs Sadhu Guru Boishnob Recordings, a label dedicated to producing high quality field recordings of Baul-Fakir songs and music, mainly from the Nadia region of Bengal. All the recordings are done in a village in the Bangladesh side of Nadia and recorded by people within the Baul-Fakir community. Sadhu […]
If someone asks what are they are singing about, reply, what is you are listening about? What are you looking at?–Ruchir Joshi in Eleven Miles In this journey, the word baul has been one of the most difficult to understand and interpret. There are countless works and initiatives on the bauls—religious studies, ethnomusicological and anthropological […]
