After a Covid-induced hiatus of two years, a three-day festival remembering the legendary Baul Lalon Shah will begin on Tuesday evening. The Lalon Academy, in association with the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the Kushtia district administration, is organising the event at Lalon Akhra in Chheuria village of Kumarkhali upazila. Khulna divisional commissioner Md Ismail Hossain Khan will inaugurate the festival at 6.45pm. Also read: Three-day Lalon festival beings today in Kushtia Hundreds of admirers from home and abroad have already gathered at Lalon Akhra to take part in the festival. The festival will feature open discussions, singing of Baul songs by artistes of Lalon Academy and prominent singers, fair and cultural performances. Traders who have put up stalls on the banks of the Mora Kali river for the rural fair, a part of the festival, are hoping for good sales as devotees have already thronged the Akra premises.

Kushtia, Oct 16 (UNB) – A three-day festival will begin on Wednesday afternoon at Lalon Akhra in Chheuria village marking the 129th death anniversary of legendry Baul Lalon Shah.