{"id":89287,"date":"2019-10-15T16:46:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T11:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10943"},"modified":"2019-10-15T16:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T11:16:04","slug":"baul-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/baul-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Baul festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>A<strong> <\/strong>three day long Baul festival has concluded in Dhaka with performances by Bauls from India and Bangladesh.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Baul:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Bauls are mystic minstrels living in rural Bangladesh and West Bengal,India.<\/li><li>Baul music represents a particular type of folk song, carrying influences of Hindu bhakti movements as well as the shuphi, a form of Sufi song.<\/li><li>Bauls live either near a village or travel from place to place and earn their living from singing to the accompaniment of the ektara, the lute dotara, a simple one-stringed instrument and a drum called dubki.<\/li><li>Bauls belong to an unorthodox devotional tradition influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, Bengali, Vasinavism and Sufi Islam yet distinctly different from them.<\/li><li>Their emphasis lies on the importance of a person\u2019s physical body as the place where God resides.They are admired for this freedom from convention as well as for their music and poetry.<\/li><li>In 2005, the Baul tradition of Bangladesh was included in the list of Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:A three day long Baul festival has concluded in Dhaka with performances by Bauls from India and Bangladesh. Facts: About Baul: The Bauls are mystic minstrels living in rural Bangladesh and West Bengal,India. Baul music represents a particular type of folk song, carrying influences of Hindu bhakti movements as well as the shuphi, a form&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/baul-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baul festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6732],"class_list":["post-89287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-baul-festival","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704855355},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}