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 Piers Moore Ede is a British born writer, with a travel book Honey and Dust published by Bloomsbury in 2005. Born in 1975, he was educated at Winchester College, Exeter University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. While living in Sa ...

stated that ''The Honey Gatherers'' recounts Sen's adventures in rural

Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

. As the life partner of Bengali baul musician

Paban Das Baul Paban Das Baul (born 1961) is a noted Baul singer and musician from India, who also plays a ''dubki'', a small tambourine and sometimes an ''ektara'' as an accompaniment. He is known for pioneering traditional Baul music on the international musi ...

, 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 Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

song album titled ''

Le Chant Des Bauls - Manuche O Rautan ''Le Chant Des Bauls - Manuche O Rautan'' is a 2002 Bengali Baul song album by Paban Das Baul, Gour Khyapa, Nimai Goswami and Mimlu Sen. It was released by Brussels based Belgian Belgian may refer to: * Something of, or related to, Belgium * Be ...

'' with Paban Das Baul, Gour Khyapa and Nimai Goswami which was released by

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

based Belgian record company Fonti Musicali.

Early life

Sen was born in

Shillong Shillong () is a hill station and the capital of Meghalaya, a Indian state, state in northeastern India, which means "The Abode of Clouds". It is the headquarters of the East Khasi Hills district. Shillong is the list of most populous cities in ...

Meghalaya Meghalaya (, or , meaning "abode of clouds"; from Sanskrit , "cloud" + , "abode") is a states and union territories of India, state in northeastern India. Meghalaya was formed on 21 January 1972 by carving out two districts from the state of As ...

, India. During the 1960s and 1970s she studied in Kolkata and participated in street protests demanding an end to the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...

. She was jailed for the Naxalite movement.

Bibliography

* *

Discography

* ''

'' (2002, with

, Gour Khyapa & Nimai Goswami)

References

Sources

* *

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sen, Mimlu 1949 births Living people People from Shillong Bengali musicians Naxalite–Maoist insurgency Women musicians from West Bengal