Shah Abdul Karim: Baul King and the Voice of the Haor

Shah Abdul Karim (1916–2009) was a poor farmer's son from Ujan Dhol village in Sunamganj who became the Baul Samrat — the Baul King — of Bengal. With his ektara and more than 1,500 songs, including the communal-harmony anthem "Age Ki Sundor Din Kataitam", he carried the mystic philosophy of the haor wetlands to the whole of Bangladesh, receiving the Ekushey Padak in 2001.