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	Lalon Phokir, Man of the Heart: Review by Prachi Deshpande[Parabaas Translation]
		Lalon laughs as he looks down at them, and their faces contort as they condemn his heterodox views and reiterate a more orthodox version of religious practice.
		Chatterjee sketches the colonial history of Bengal and the growing urban-rural split in the nineteenth century with the rise of colonial Calcutta, and the emergence of a Westernised, Bengali middle-class and intelligentsia.
		Lalon merged Sufi, Bhakti and Tantric ideas, emphasized the Ko'ran of the heart as a hidden text, with its own compass of morality and correct behaviour, as more important than the book itself.
	www.parabaas.com /translation/database/reviews/lalon_drama.html (940 words)

	Lalon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lalon intentionally kept his place of birth and the identity of his parents unknown.
		Lalon left no trace of his birth or his 'origin' and remained absolutely silent about his past, fearing that he would be cast into class, caste or communal identities by a fragmented and hierarchical society.
		Lalon does not fit into the construction of the so called 'bauls' or 'fakirs' as a mystical or spiritual types who deny all worldly affairs in desperate search for a mystical ecstasy of the soul.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lalon_Fakir (612 words)

	arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh/India
		Lalon, a powerful and gifted instrument, it may be safely said, echoed the voice of the eternity, eternal pangs of human soul with the fullest devotion, sincerity and ecstasy.
		Lalon belonged to the Baul community- a group of supplicant singers noted for the catholicity of their religious views.
		Lalon Shah’s background as a common man and his concern for the spiritual betterment of humanity are both clearly revealed in the songs.
	www.sos-arsenic.net /english/intro/lalon.html (6539 words)

	offoffonline - off-off-Broadway reviews, listings, and more
		Lalon Phokir is regarded as the Baul of Bauls.
		Lalon was probably born in 1774 in the part of Nadia district now in Kushtia, Bangladesh, and died in 1890.
		Lalon left a deep message of harmony and peace that cannot be downplayed, least of all in a world that is suffering from the dire lack of it, and more painfully than ever before
	www.offoffonline.com /listings.php?id=2548 (351 words)

	NON-FICTION \| New Age Eid Special
		Lalon appeared as an idea in flesh and blood and such appearance is known as ‘abirvhab’; accordingly the death or the disappearance is called ‘tirodhan’.
		Lalon was against all forms of socio-economic hierarchy, caste, class, and gender and any forms of politics of identity based on race, nationality, etc. He did not believe in divisions according to jat (caste), path (hierarchies by which who can accept food and water from whom), class, patriarchy, religion and nation.
		Lalon was not a nationalist, despite the fact the anti-colonial nationalist movement was fomenting in the subcontinent.
	www.newagebd.com /2005/nov/04/eidspecial05/non-fiction06.html (4053 words)

	eThikana.com :: Mystics of Bangladesh
		As a young boy, Lalon caught smallpox and was abandoned in a critical condition.
		Lalon was later inducted as a Baul fakir.
		Lalon died at Chheuriya, at the age of 116 on 17 October 1890.
	ethikana.com /bangladesh/greatpersonality/mystics.htm (499 words)

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		Legend has it that Lalon was born a
		Lalon lived through one of the most interesting periods of history in the
		Lalon and used it in their own agendas, whether to fold him up in the
	www.lalon.org /Scope.html (459 words)

	Jah Bauliana - Worshipping the Great gOD in mAN
		On Fakir Lalon Shah - Response from Maia Grenell
		On Fakir Lalon Shah - Response from Sulav Chowdhury
		On Fakir Lalon Shah - By Farhad Mazhar
	bauliana.blogspot.com (13264 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Baul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the Lalon Shahi tradition, for example, there is a predominance of Sufistic and tantric beliefs and sahajiya rituals, while in the Panju Shahi tradition, tantric beliefs and sahajiya practices are absent.
		During the lifetime of lalon shah, there were akhdas of Baul fakirs in many parts of Bangladesh, especially at vikramapura, narsingdi, manikganj, sylhet, comilla, rangpur, nilphamari, Pabna, Faridpur, rajbari, Jessore, magura, Jhenaidah, Chuadanga, Meherpur and Kushtia.
		Lalon Shah himself was a victim of this hatred.
	banglapedia.org /HT/B_0355.HTM (1622 words)

	Lalon - Wikipedia Light! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Image:Lalon big.jpg Lalon Fokir, also known as Lalon Shah (Bangla: লালন ফকির) (1774–1890), was born in a village in the district of Kushtia, now in Bangladesh.
		Lalon was one of the greatest mystic-singers the Indian subcontinent has ever produced, and also a radical and secular voice in India during British colonial rule, which also witnessed increased miscommunication between Hindus and Muslims.
		Writing in nineteenth-century lyrical Bengali, Lalon composed numerous songs which still provide spiritual and political inspiration to the Bengali rural peasant, a class from which Lalon himself came.
	www.godseye.com /wiki/index.php/Lalon (394 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On the occasion the Lalon Academy organized a three day seminar and discussion meeting on the great mystic who has practically ruled the mystic world for the last two hundred years and still his popularity is gaining every day because of his iconoclastic approach against caste system and religious intolerance.
		Professor Anwarul Karim, the noted author on Lalon Shah and the Baul cult, and a former founder director of Lalon Academy said that Lalon was a source of inspiration to Rabindranath Tagore who composed his 'Gitanjali' (song offerings) taking the theme and philosophy of Lalon Shah.
		The speakers at the discussion meeting, particularly the bauls, stressed that the baul cult was based on a religious syncretistic attitude and it had its origin in Sufi cult.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2003/10/22/district.htm (1184 words)

	Listening to Farida Perveen
		Over the years she has rendered Lalon with such telling intensity that she has become one with the mystic soul that happens to be her spiritual inspiration.
		Lalon too has waited long for her to be born and bring him back to life.
		Farida is a great exponent of Lalon and I admire her talents the like of which we are least likely to see in generations to come.
	www.dhakacourier.net /issue29/column/doc4.html (609 words)

	BDGF :: Bangladesh Demography
		The mysticism of Lalon songs largely remains unrevealed and unexplored till date.
		After he passed away on the 17th of October 1890, at Chheuriya, at the age of 116, he was laid to rest at the place of his meditation.
		Lalon geeti or songs contain high lyrical value and is considered as the finest asset in our line of folk music.
	www.bangladeshgateway.org /event.php?eventID=22 (587 words)

	Indian plays' return to UC Berkeley stage: Indians Abroad - HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Chatterjee said he's been intrigued by Lalon since the age of 5 or 6, when he heard a Baul singer from the country pass his home every day singing various compositions from Lalon's rich repertoire, estimated at more than 1,000 songs passed down orally.
		Lalon angered Hindus, Muslims and others by refusing to answer if he had been born Hindu or Muslim and insisting that what is in the heart matters more than whether someone worships in a mosque, temple, cathedral or synagogue.
		But since Lalon's death and ever-growing popularity, he said, Muslim fundamentalists in Bangladesh have built a protective mausoleum over his grave, while the Hindu majority in West Bengal has claimed him as an icon of secularism.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Sep/08/5967_1485883,001600060001.htm (1117 words)

	loving-bengal.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lalon Shah, one of the greatest mystic poets of this sub-continent was born in the year 1774 in the village Harishpur, under the present District of Jhenaidah in Bangladesh.
		Lalon in many of his verses on dehotatta has implicitly given guideline on physical analysis to be beyond 'physical state' to the metaphysical.
		About Lalon’s philosophical and mystic school Chaitanya Mohaprabhu or Lord Sri Chaitanya was born at Nabadwip, a small village in undivided Bengal and the district it belonged was known as ‘Nadia’.
	www.loving-bengal.net /lalon.html (16260 words)

	EID SUPPLEMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lalon's songs may also give us a cushion to consumerism and drab commercialisation that are sweeping across the modern times.
		Lalon’s dream is not a fancy, rather it is his meditated verdict, since he knows fully well that there is a unique jewel inside every individual, and it is the sacred duty of every individual entity to discover it.
		Lalon asserts, ‘Human life like this will never be repeated./ Recognise this jewel of a man before your time is up.’ So Lalon’s longing is based on his philosophical quest; he knows that an individual does not live forever, but the jewel in him is imperishable.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/nov/02/02112005sl.htm (10631 words)

	Mac's Blog
		What I would however prefer to pander to is how Lalon systematised and conceptualised his thought process and created a kingdom of his own, where he felt a perpetual frisson of happiness.
		Lalon's greatest achievement was an ability to recognise his physical constitution-- Mazhar accepts it too---, but what is more significant and which the author never broached, is Lalon extracted his mental energy from this bodily bondage, which dragooned him into thinking of "another supernatural power" to whom he lays prostrate with bovine submission!.
		Of Lalon's death, whether "coincidence" or "quintessence of his mental sublimity" is something that is unknown.
	macsblog.blogspirit.com /index.html (3871 words)

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		scholars on Lalon Phokir and the Baul-Phokir tradition -- Sudhir
		Sudipto had first imagined this as a collaborative project.
		Lalon has hundreds of songs that the author felt were worth
	www.lalon.org /Genesis.html (411 words)

	Eminent Bauls of Bengal
		Lalon songs are very popular among the Bauls of both east and west Bengal.
		Lalon was perhaps the most radical voice in India during British colonial rule composing numerous, somewhat revolutionary songs that celebrated the freedom of the body and soul and opposed both the British colonialism and the caste system of India.
		Though he died in 1891 his songs live on and to this day inspire the people of Bengal both spiritually and politically.
	babukishan.com /lineage.htm (1209 words)

	09.07.2005 - Indian plays' return to UC Berkeley stage
		Chatterjee will start off by performing at the Durham Studio Theater Sept. 22-23 in his own one-man play, "The Man of the Heart," about Lalon Phokir, a legendary mystic from the Baul sect of traveling minstrels and philosophers from the countryside of Bengal.
		Phokir also was a prolific composer and vocalist from the 1800s, said to have lived to the age of 116.
		Chatterjee said he will sing Lalon's songs, despite some doubt expressed by the Baul community about whether a non-Baul can do so.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2005/09/07_sudipto.shtml (1088 words)

	Lalon Shah on the silver screen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fakir Lalon Shah (?-1890) is the greatest of the baul musicians.
		Although many parts of his life are still unknown, the film has tried to cover his life from childhood to death.
		The film, Lalon, has been finished making and already presented to the censor board.
	www.dhakacourier.net /issue26/other/doc3.html (463 words)

	London Film Festival - Films - Lalon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bangladeshi auteur Tanvir Mokammel returns with his latest feature on the life of the legendary Lalon, a singer and fakir who led the Baul Fakir sect in late 1800s Bengal.
		Taking influences from Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism, Lalon believed in a non-materialist humanism, expressed through the medium of song.
		The Baul movement's simple message grew in popularity amongst the rural poor, upsetting the Hindu and Moslem establishment with its radical one love teachings, which included gender equality and sexual abstinence.
	www.lff.org.uk /films_details.php?FilmID=478 (247 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Witnessed by a host of ministers, MPs, diplomats, local elite and senior civil and military officials, Begum Zia cut the red ribbon and unveiled the plague to mark the formal opening of the 1786 meter long Lalon Shah Bridge which established direct road link between the country's north-western and south-western parts.
		In his speech, Japanese ambassador said that the Lalon Shah Bridge would be remembered as a symbol of eternal friendship between Bangladesh and Japan.
		She said that her government had undertaken the Bridge project and she herself inaugurated the construction of the bridge.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/05/19/front.htm (4844 words)

	Lalon Alexander received her MFA in costume design from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 after following Professor ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lalon Alexander received her MFA in costume design from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 after following Professor Susa
		Lalon Alexander received her MFA in costume design from
		Lalon enjoys and practices many forms of art and design, mainly to keep her head from exploding.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/malexand/bio.htm (153 words)

	Songs of Lalon Phokir, translated by Sudipto Chatterjee [Parabaas Translation]
		Songs of Lalon Phokir, translated by Sudipto Chatterjee [Parabaas Translation]
		For Books in Bengali (and English translations) visit
		Lalon says, "I've never ' seen' the face
	www.parabaas.com /translation/database/translations/poems/lalon_sudipto2.html (60 words)

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