The Baul saint and ancient Baul Kala Shah was born around 1820 in Dhaipur village of Kulanj union, Dirai upazila, Sunamganj district. His father was Tamij Bepari.
Kala Shah was a first-rank Baul of Bangladesh. The number of his devotees was countless. Three collections of his songs have been published.
These are: Prem Taranga, Ratna Sagar and Ananda Sagar. He wrote more than four hundred songs. As for his birth and death, according to the information of Soyal Shah, the Baul bard of Dirai, Kala Shah lived a hundred and fifty years. He died about a couple of years before the Liberation War - that is, in 1969.
For the popularity of his written songs, many have played their part, including Fakir Shahabuddin, Momtaz and Bari Siddiqui.
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