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Today I will go to my  father's house once. 
Father's home! It's nearby.

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Yes she stays but mostly she travels in and 
out from her hometown, Jaydev.

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Yes, i will go to my father's place today

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You all come with me now to see his house. 
Okay!

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It's very beautiful, like a monastry, surrounded 
by lot of trees.

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There is a temple of lord Shiva.

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I will go by bike

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i will go by scooty

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there is no space no.

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truely speaking, it used to be good then 
as well.

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when we were kids there weren't many houses 
in our village, unlike now.

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in was born here in this house

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There is a school in the village. We used 
spent running, playing around since early 
in the morning.

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We would definetly wake up early and would 
never leave our room untidey till late.

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Although it's different now, since we come 
home very late due to our late night programmes 
at various places.

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hence we wake up late in the morning.

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But the kids here wake up early. Everyone 
else here, goes for walk or plays around.

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We used to be like that too. What usually 
happens in villages. Kids in villages wake 
up very early in the morning

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and at night, sleeps in time.

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kids in villages are different.

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Unlike city kids they don't watch much television. 
Everybody sleeps early and wakes up early.

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Most of the people here are tribal. They 
are very good people.

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They wake up at 4 in the morning. Wakes up, 
cook food for themselves and go to work

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After they leave, village becomes almost 
empty. But they all wake up very early in 
the morning and get their pets out in the 
open.

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After waking up at 4 in the morning, they 
all go for farming in nearby villages.

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only I wake up late in the morning. 5, 5:30, 
6 in the morning

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I wake up really late in the morning unlike 
everybody else.

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Yes I will tell you about my father. My father 
recently demised.

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Earlier he used to play flute very well. 
He used to wake three in the morning and 
played flute.

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Me and my brother would also wake up. He 
played it very well

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he used to sing as well.

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Our father had taught us to wake up early 
in the morning. That's why we learned to 
wake up early

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I don't know why?

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When we sing early in the morning , our rest 
of the day goes really well.

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we feel really good all day. That's why we 
sing in the morning.

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we baul singers, me and khepa first wake 
up in the morning, and go for morning walk 
near prantik station. We walk around 1.5 
-2 kms.

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After we come back we drink hot water or 
tea, freshen up and then start singing.

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since it's too cold now a days, we are not 
going because it strains our throat. Otherwise 
we go everyday for morning walk.

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I got scared listening to a weird tale.(2)

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A person comes from the infinity and then 
again disappears into the infinity (2)

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I got scared listening to a weird tale.(2)

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I saw someone walking on three legs near 
a pond

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and the other one walks on six legs.

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we are going to meet again someday, as said 
by Madan Fakir. I got scared listening to 
the tale

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after listening to the weird tale, I got 
scared.

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can you play c sharp. the song didn't tune 
well.

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is this c sharp.

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I got scared listening to the weird song 
(2)

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Human comes from the infinity and again disappears 
into the infinity.

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Listening to the weird story I  felt scared

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And I saw someone near the pond walking on 
six legs

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I saw someone near the pond walking on six 
legs

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Someday, somewhere we will meet again as 
said by Madan Fakir. I got scared listening 
to the weird tale.(2)

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Hearing the weird tale, I got scared

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it's still not upto the tune.

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My father used to sing this song a lot.

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we don't know the origin of the person, that 
they take birth and where do they go. There 
is no address or direction of it.

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they originate from the infinity and disappears 
into the infinity again.

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My mother, she does not sing. My mother does 
home chorses. She is a homemaker.

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But she has always supported us a lot. My 
mother is a real baul singer.

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if it wasn't her we could have never sang 
baul music. We could have never made it to 
this world without her

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It is all because of my mother, because she 
always lifted us up

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When my kids were small, I used to leave 
them with my mother to do stage performances 
at various places.

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They used to stay with my mother.

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My mother brought up Purna and Pratima, my 
daughter Pratima

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Pratima and Purna were both raised by my 
mother.

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Both of my kids don't call my mother, grandmother. 
They call her 'Maa'

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My mother supports us a lot.

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my mother is devotee of lord Shiva. She worships 
him a lot. I collect flowers for her.

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I worship guru but cannot worship everyday. 
I sing everyday

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I sing all day, while cooking, eating. Sometimes 
I write songs and compose few of them as 
well.

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I do these things all day.

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I love plants. But this year we were busy 
with father's treatment in hospital

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Earlier my house was filled with plants and 
flowers. I love flowers a lot but this year 
there aren't many

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There are only a few. We bought it from plant 
nursery

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we grow the the saplings at home all by ourselves. 
There were lot of flowers.

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This year there are no flowers in my house. 
Everything dried up.

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My father used to do it all. My father used 
to love plants a lot

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There are lot of flowers at my father's place. 
During this time around my father used to 
bring me flower saplings from nursery

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My father bought me good saplings and also 
planted them for me.

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Last few days which I spent in Delhi were 
really good.

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But before that I was really very sad.

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I lost my father very recently. So none of 
us went anywhere. We all were at home.

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There is a huge void now.

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Music is ofcourse there. But my father used 
to call me Queen.

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In the morning the first thing he used to 
do was to call me

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when there was no phone, he used to come 
to meet me.

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Since time he had phone, he used to wait 
for me, so that we could have morning tea 
together and then I used to come back.

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I will show you my father.

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How should I explain you this relationship 
of father and daughter. It's very different.

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My Father was a very fun loving person. He 
used to love people a lot.

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He used to love enjoying his life. He would 
always  stay cheerful and happy all day.

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I always laugh and joke around, just like 
my father. He used to always stay cheerful.

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What should I say. It aches my heart. This 
was a huge shock for us.

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But there is nothing we can do about this.

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It's not even two months.

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My eyes started tearing up.

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we were all very happy. It is going to take 
sometime to get over this.

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Since it's very painful.

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Can you give me some more tea.

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I'm taking sometime to recover. But since 
music is practised here all day, so its fine.

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Now I understand  why, when some other person 
looses some near ones, they can't handle 
it.

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We can still deal with it, since we are indulged 
in singing all day.

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we are all living good because of music. 
Still.

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yes I did. I did shows with him.

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No, not France. I didn't go France with my 
father.

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I went Kerala with him, not France.

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My father went France, Spain, Netherland, 
Germany

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Switzerland.

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He went many years back. When I was around 
8 or 9 year old, he went during that time.

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He used to play flute at that time, very 
well

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yes!

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My father. How did you come to know about 
it.? did i tell you?

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My husband used to stay with Purna Das baul. 
He is one of us. My husband stayed with him 
for 10 years.

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He( her husband) didn't went there for music. 
Rather, he went there for some work at his 
home.

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But he learnt music while working in their 
home.

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My husband's house is in Chandi Das Rajakini. 
He used to stay there.

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He(husband) loved music a lot.

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So someone said to him,"what you would do 
here, so let me take you someone's place 
for work where everyone sings"

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(The other person said to her husband)" Life 
in village is tough, so let me take you Kolkata 
for work.

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My husband asked where? He said at house 
of Purna Das.

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The he agreed at once, and said" i will definetly 
go". "I will be able to learn music"

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After he( her husband) stayed with Purna 
Das, in his house for 10 years.

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For 10 years he worked as servant there.

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By the time he left that place, he had already 
learnt music

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He would work there, and learned music at 
night.

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After that, due to some reason, he came back 
to Shantiniketan

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He was roaming around in Shantiniketan just 
like that, with a Do tara.

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Then he met my father.

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Once my father brought him to our house.

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My father said "he is a nice guy, stays in 
a nearby village.

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Then our families proceeded with the process 
of mariage

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At first, I used to call him uncle.

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Kaka!( uncle)

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Since my father brought him home, I thought 
 he must be his friend and that's why my 
uncle.

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I used to call him Uncle.

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He used to do lot of stage performances with 
my father, and would go everywhere with him.

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My father liked him, as he wasn't into any 
sort of addictions

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No drinking, no smoking, nothing at all.

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So my father said," he is a nice guy. So 
let us get you married to him."

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But I said no. That won't happen ever. I 
won't marry him

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But my father said," you have to marry him".

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Due to this reason I had tussle with my father.

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I was very young at that time.

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But now I feel, he must have felt something 
right about me getting married to him.

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Since I got married to him, I could persue 
this world of music.

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Because if I was married somewhere else, 
I could have never been able to persue this.

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The way he supported me through out, nobody 
else would have done it in the same way.

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One thing is for sure, men do not believe 
in women empowernment

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Alright! So, no matter how much we say that 
we are independent women

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But, are we really independent? No.

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Even though, there are so many women, who 
are tortured by men.

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Still we say we are independent women

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we are not actually independent.

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I have seen in our village areas that if 
a man says something has to be cooked, then 
it has to happen

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whatever they wish to eat, it has to be cooked

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We don't have such rules.

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I do whatever I want to do

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So this is one of the reasons.

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Even after being from such society, since 
I have been married to Dibakar Das baul

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everybody in our baul group knows that my 
fame is because of him.

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Becuse in many places he won't sing himself, 
rather made me sing

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On big platforms, if time was less for performance, 
say suppose only five minutes are there to 
perform

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he used to say," Rina you sing".

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By providing that space, he helped me to 
reach this position.

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I have my Guru Bhava Pagla, in Navadweep

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but, my husband is my real Guru who built 
my life this way.

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This i have to accept.

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I cannot deny this.

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I have to agree.

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that he is my guru.

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If it wasn't because of him, I would have 
never become Rina Das Baulina. Never would 
I have.

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The life is very long.

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When I used to go for performance at some 
place,

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so when I used to sleep, since I was very 
young he would stay awake by my side the 
whole night,

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he would only sleep after returing back home, 
he would never sleep there.

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There were not many people when we used to 
go for performances

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I am talking about the time almost thirty 
years back

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then everything used to be very different.

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Then we used to perform in villages. We were 
given single place for all the baul singers 
to sleep.

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There was room full of mattress where everybody 
would sleep side by side.

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I would occupy some corner to sleep, and 
my husband would sit by side whole night.

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We would then return early in the morning

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he would never sleep there

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He is my biggest blessing, he did a lot for 
me

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He would take me everywhere.

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He did a lot for me, and I was also adamant, 
that I have to do something.

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That's why it happened.

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But I had his constant support. He used to 
always say "you go and do whatever you want".

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This is in itself is big gift.

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if every girl gets such support at home, 
they can do anything.

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It is not necessary that everybody has to 
sing or do something similar

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everybody has some kind of talent

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but, our women cannot use that talent

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whether its power or talent, they are unable 
to use it.

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say for example, i went to perform in Murshidabad

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may be six months ago.

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I went to some workshop, I was invited there. 
Some women came

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I taught those 7-8 women, two songs.

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So while singing, I noticed one of them who 
was sitting beside me, was trying really 
hard to sing

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was writing down music while sitting beside 
me

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I thought, may be she is not stable, since 
she was behaving weirdly.

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she went back home at night

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then I told the rest about the lady that, 
she had been behaving weirdly and caused 
disturbance,

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so, they said do you know how educated she 
is.

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because of responsibilities of home, she 
could do nothing, that's why she behaves 
like this.

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she wanted to learn music and also wanted 
apply for job after education, but nobody 
allowed her to do so

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since her husband sings baul too.

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he said" if she succeeds then nobody will 
ever recognize me"

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After listening to this, I felt so bad, that 
next day when she came, I hugged her tightly

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that only because of her husband she couldn't 
do anything

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since both of them are of same profession, 
both of them sing baul

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I saw that, she sings well but she isn't 
stable

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She was repeatedly saying, "they don't teach 
me, they don't let me sing"

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I felt so bad that she has such beautiful 
voice but she isn't stable

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she was just saying, " I couln't do anything". 
There is just one life, right

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That day I felt, she could have achieved 
a lot, but she didn't have support

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Did you fall. Did you fall with the bike.

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Then?

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Did you fall with the bike? speak the truth

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then why are you limping? Is your knee aching

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Why are you limping?

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I have been carrying this that's why.

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okay

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I can't tell you anymore, husband has come

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Work! I have to cook breakfast.

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fry some bringal fritters.

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yes, absolutely right! I am going to fry 
some fritters. Come on prepare the batter.

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I need the dustbin to throw the paper cups. 
Whatever trash are there, bring and throw 
them.

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I am going to slice the bringals

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humming

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Did you bring it.