KUSHTIA, March 16, 2022 (BSS) - A three-day-long festival remembering the

legendary Baul Lalon Shah began here last evening.
 
The Lalon Academy has organised the festival in association with the Ministry
of Cultural Affairs and the Kushtia district administration.
 
Khulna divisional commissioner Md Ismail Hossain Khan inaugurated the
festival with Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mohammad Saidul Islam in the chair.
 
Hundreds of admirers have already gathered at Lalon Akhra to take part in the
festival.
 
The festival features open discussions, presentation of singers of Lalon
Academy as well as renewed singers, fair and cultural performances.
 
Considered an icon of religious tolerance and secularism in Bengali culture,
Lalon Shah was a Baul, a mystic, a songwriter, singer and social reformer.
 
The discussion on the life and works of Lalon Shah was held on the Lalon
academy premises in the evening of yesterday.