Bengali Folk Songs,Lalan Geeti. Songs of Lalan Fakir

Lalan Fakir also known as Lalon Shah was a Bengali philosopher poet. His poetry, articulated in songs, is considered classics of the Bengali language. Fakir Lalon Shah lived in the village of Cheuria in the area known as Nadia in the district of Kushtia in Bangladesh. He never revealed his social identity because of his consistent opposition against all forms of communal identity. He refused all his life to be trapped into the politics of identity of any kind. When people, particularly members of the urban the middle class who were already divided into Hindu and Muslim during colonial period, asked about his religion, Lalon mocked them. Many of his songs make mockery of those who degraded themselves to identity politics that divides a community, thereby creating conditions that generate communal conflict and violence.