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<div>{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Mimlu Sen<br />
| image = Mimlu Sen in 2007 (cropped).jpg<br />
| caption = Sen in 2007<br />
| native_name = মিমলু সেন<br />
| native_name_lang = bn<br />
| birth_date = 1949<br />
| birth_place = [[Shillong]], [[Meghalaya]], India<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| citizenship = <br />
| education = <br />
| alma_mater = <br />
| occupation = {{hlist|author|translator|musician|composer|producer}}<br />
| years_active = -present<br />
| movement = [[Naxalite movement]]<br />
| spouse = [[Paban Das Baul]]<br />
| module = {{Infobox musical artist<br />
| embed = yes<br />
| genre = [[Baul music]], [[Folk music|folk]]-[[Fusion music|fusion]]<br />
| instrument =<br />
| label = [[Fonti Musicali]]<br />
| associated_acts = {{plainlist|<br />
* [[Paban Das Baul]]<br />
* [[Gour Khyapa]]<br />
* [[Nimai Goswami]]}}<br />
}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Mimlu Sen''' (born 1949) is an Indian author, translator, musician, composer and producer.<br />
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She was 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}}<br />
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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 language|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 [[Belgium|Belgian]] record company [[Fonti Musicali]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Sen was born in [[Shillong]], [[Meghalaya]], India.{{r|De}} During the 1960s and 1970s she studying in Kolkata and participating in street protests demanding an end of [[Vietnam War]]. She has been jailed for [[Naxalite movement]].{{r|De}}<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* {{cite book |title=Baulsphere |date=2009 |publisher=[[Random House|Random House India]] |location=India |isbn=9788184000559 |oclc=762666034 |ol=OL23873712M |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LludhzZoUA0C}} <br />
* {{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}}<br />
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==Discography==<br />
* ''[[Le Chant Des Bauls - Manuche O Rautan]]'' (2002, with [[Paban Das Baul]], [[Gour Khyapa]] & [[Nimai Goswami]])<br />
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==References==<br />
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<ref name="Ede">{{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}}</ref><br />
<ref name="De">{{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}}</ref><br />
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<ref name="thetravellingarchive">{{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}}</ref><br />
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===Sources===<br />
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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 }}<br />
* {{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 }}<br />
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