The Honey Gatherers: Travels with The Bauls: The Wandering Minstrels of Rural India

Mimlu Sen is a translator, musician, producer and composer. She collaborates with Paban Das Baul on all his recordings, performing with and managing his group on their concert tours around the world. She has travelled, and worked, between India and France since 1969, and was born in Shillong. This is her first book.

"A revelation...a keyhole to a living mystical world...remarkable for its wonderful prose" * William Dalrymple * "Brilliantly and honestly told, thrillingly evocative, this book is saturated in the sights, sounds and seasons of India" -- Michael Wood "Exceptional...The haunting music provides the narrative drive of this wonderful piece of writing, as Sen reveals a colourful and largely unknown world...An illuminating and inspiring story of adventure in a world that few of us will ever experience" * Daily Telegraph * "Joyfully written and very evocative of an esoteric, enchanted, chaotic world" * Times *