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Mimlu Sen
মিমলু সেন
Sen in 2007
Born	1949 Shillong, Meghalaya, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupations	author translator musician composer producer
Years active	-present
Movement	Naxalite movement
Spouse	Paban Das Baul
Musical career
Genres	Baul music, folk-fusion
Labels	Fonti Musicali
Musical artist

Mimlu Sen (born 1949) is an Indian author, translator, musician, composer and producer.

She published her first book Baulsphere in 2009, and the following year it was published as The Honey Gatherers. Piers Moore Ede stated that The Honey Gatherers recounts Sen's adventures in rural Bengal.

As the life partner of Bengali baul musician Paban Das Baul, Sen collaborates with Paban on all his recordings, performing with and managing his group on their concert tours around the world. In 2002 she collaborates in a Bengali song album titled Le Chant Des Bauls - Manuche O Rautan with Paban Das Baul, Gour Khyapa and Nimai Goswami which was released by Brussels based Belgian record company Fonti Musicali.

Early life

Sen was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. During the 1960s and 1970s she studied in Kolkata and participated in street protests demanding an end to the Vietnam War. She was jailed for the Naxalite movement.

Bibliography

Baulsphere. India: Random House India. 2009. ISBN 9788184000559. OCLC 762666034. OL 23873712M.
The Honey Gatherers. London: Rider (imprint). 2010. ISBN 9781846041891. OCLC 503647267. OL 24084518M.

Discography

Le Chant Des Bauls - Manuche O Rautan (2002, with Paban Das Baul, Gour Khyapa & Nimai Goswami)

References

Knight 2014, pp. 34.
Ede, Piers Moore (2 May 2010). "The Honey Gatherers, By Mimlu Sen". Reviews. The Independent. Archived from the original on 15 May 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
Lorea 2016, pp. 48.
^ De, Shobhaa (21 November 2014). "Mimlu Sen: "Born to be wild..."". Pune Mirror. Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
"Nimai Chand Baul". The Travelling Archive. 25 November 2003. Retrieved 13 October 2020.

Sources

Knight, Lisa I. (2014). "Multiple Sites". Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh (reprint ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 34. ISBN 9780199396849.
Lorea, Carola (2016). "1". Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman: A Journey Between Performance and the Politics of Cultural Representation (illustrated ed.). BRILL. pp. 48–49. ISBN 9789004324718. OCLC 959226678. OL 29324415M.

External links

v t e Paban Das Baul
Solo albums	Inner Knowledge (1997) Music of the Honey Gatherers (2010)
Collaboration albums	Real Sugar (1997, with Sam Mills) Tana Tani (2004, with State of Bengal) Le Chant Des Bauls - Manuche O Rautan (2002)
Filmography	Nagmoti (1983) (as performer at song "Doriyay Ailo Tufan") Shukno Lanka (2010) (as performer at song "Sundori Komola") Hunger & Love: Tobu O Bhalobasha (2017) (as composer)
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