Nari Niye Shobai Ghar Kare/Men Who Make Homes With Women

\"Nari Niye Shobai Ghar Kare\" (Men Who Make Homes With Women) is a collaborative track from the album Paban Das Baul and Jonny Wartel. Released in 2003 under the label Gravitation, the album adopted a CD format. The song appears as the ninth track on the release.

Artists Paban Das Baul and Jonny Wartel co-created the composition. Paban Das Baul contributed vocals and traditional Baul instrumentation, including the ektara and khamak. Jonny Wartel provided additional vocal harmonies and Western acoustic guitar accompaniment. The track blends Baul folk traditions from Bengal with contemporary folk arrangements, reflecting the album’s cross-cultural fusion.

The lyrics explore themes of gender dynamics and domestic partnership, framed within the Baul philosophy of spiritual and social harmony. The title translates to \"Everyone Makes Homes with Women,\" emphasizing interdependence in household and societal structures. The song’s melodic structure follows a call-and-response pattern, a hallmark of Baul performance practice.

The album Paban Das Baul and Jonny Wartel emerged from a series of live collaborations between the artists in the early 2000s. Gravitation, a Denmark-based independent label, produced and distributed the recording. The CD release included liner notes detailing the Baul tradition’s oral history and the artists’ collaborative process. No further commercial reissues or alternate versions of the track have been documented.

Critical reception of the album highlighted the track’s lyrical depth and the artists’ ability to merge Bengali folk idioms with Western folk sensibilities. Live performances of the song occurred during the duo’s European tours in 2003 and 2004, though no official concert recordings exist. The track remains a representative example of transnational folk collaborations in early 21st-century world music.