:Mimlu Sen

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| name = Mimlu Sen

| image = Mimlu Sen in 2007 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Sen in 2007

| native_name = মিমলু সেন

| native_name_lang = bn

| birth_date = 1949

| birth_place = Shillong, Meghalaya, India

| nationality = Indian

| citizenship =

| education =

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| occupation = {{hlist|author|translator|musician|composer|producer}}

| years_active = -present

| movement = Naxalite movement

| spouse = Paban Das Baul

| module = {{Infobox musical artist

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| genre = Baul music, folk-fusion

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| label = Fonti Musicali

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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.{{sfn|Knight|2014|pp=34}} Piers Moore Ede stated that The Honey Gatherers recounts Sen's adventures in rural Bengal.{{r|Ede}}

As the life partner of Bengali baul musician Paban Das Baul,{{sfn|Lorea|2016|pp=48}}{{r|De}} 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{{r|thetravellingarchive}} which was released by Brussels based Belgian record company Fonti Musicali.{{fact|date=April 2023}}

Early life

Sen was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India.{{r|De}} 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.{{r|De}}

Bibliography

{{cite book |title=Baulsphere |date=2009 |publisher=Random House India |location=India |isbn=9788184000559 |oclc=762666034 |ol=OL23873712M |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LludhzZoUA0C}}
{{cite book |title=The Honey Gatherers |date=2010 |publisher=Rider (imprint) |location=London |isbn=9781846041891 |oclc=503647267 |ol=OL24084518M |url=https://archive.org/details/honeygathererstr0000senm}}

Discography

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

References

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{{cite news |last1=Ede |first1=Piers Moore |authorlink1=Piers Moore Ede |title=The Honey Gatherers, By Mimlu Sen |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-honey-gatherers-by-mimlu-sen-1957173.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220515/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-honey-gatherers-by-mimlu-sen-1957173.html |archive-date=2022-05-15 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |accessdate=23 October 2020 |work=Reviews |publisher=The Independent |date=2 May 2010}}

{{cite news |last1=De |first1=Shobhaa |title=Mimlu Sen: "Born to be wild..." |url=https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/columns/columnists/shobhaa-de/mimlu-sen-born-to-be-wild-/articleshow/44247201.cms |accessdate=23 October 2020 |work=Pune Mirror |publisher=Mumbai Mirror |date=21 November 2014}}

{{cite web |title=Nimai Chand Baul |url=http://www.thetravellingarchive.org/record-session/bolpur-birbhum-25-november-2003-nimai-chand-baul/ |publisher=The Travelling Archive |accessdate=13 October 2020 |date=25 November 2003}}

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{{cite book |last1=Knight |first1=Lisa I. |title=Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199396849 |page=34 |edition=reprint |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_8TDAAAQBAJ&q=Mimlu+Sen&pg=PA34 |chapter=Multiple Sites }}
{{cite book |last1=Lorea |first1=Carola |title=Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman: A Journey Between Performance and the Politics of Cultural Representation |year=2016 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789004324718 |pages=48–49 |edition=illustrated |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7izFDAAAQBAJ&q=Mimlu+Sen&pg=PA48 |chapter=1 |oclc=959226678 |ol=OL29324415M }}