Calcutta, March 2 :    Calcutta, March 2:  Imagine Mick Jagger belting out Bengali baul numbers while plucking the khamak at the Park Rock Festival in New Jersey, or Robbie Robertson wielding the dotara at the Berkeley Rock Fest, San Francisco. Far-fetched? Not quite, if the original Bengal minstrel has his way. Baul Samrat Purna Das Baul, who had introduced baul gaan of rural Bengal to the West during that magical eight-month tour of the US in 1965 with rock and folk icons like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Paul Robeson, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner,... organised by Albert B. Grossman, is planning a second coming. Having formed the first baul fusion group - 'Khyapa' (the title Tagore bestowed on his father, Nabani Das Baul) - Purna Das, along with sons Krishnendu (Babu Kishen), Subhendu (Bapi) and Dibyendu, is chalking out plans for a unique tour of the US next year, designed to bring together on stage a galaxy of superstars and forge a grand reunion of sorts, with baul music as the fulcrum. Hailed as 'India's Bob Dylan' by New York Times in 1984, Purna Das Baul is set to hit the major rock fests in the US with his baul fusion in 2002. In the pipeline is a tour spanning four to five stops in the US like New Jersey, New York City, LA... and a few cities in Japan. Purna Das, who has also made music with Bob Marley, Gordon Lightfoot and Mahalia Jackson, is banking on a little help from his friends to make divine music again. 'One of my dreams is to make Mick Jagger sing baul gaan in Bengali on stage in the US and record it. Maybe, I'll have to teach him basic Bengali diction before that,' he smiles. The folk-rock-jazz-reggae feast this time is almost sure to feature Robbie Robertson, frontman of erstwhile rock group The Band, world music guru Peter Gabriel, and Herbie Mann - 'all sympathisers with meaningful fusion'. Purna Das is trying his best to cajole long-time friend Dylan to come out of his one-gig-a-year wilderness and trek Highway 61 Revisitedon stage with the 'rest of the folks'. 'I have already told him about my project and he is quite enthusiastic. I am keeping my fingers crossed, praying he can do at least one show with my fusion band,' hopes the Baul who had cut a CD of Bengali songs and gifted it to Dylan on his birthday, a few years ago. Khyapa - the ageing minstrel explains - while sticking to its base structure of 'quintessential baul gaan', will also incorporate diverse western elements like jazz, blues and reggae to 'make my music acceptable' to present-day America. 'I want perfect harmony between the dhol and drums, the dotara and the guitar, the flute and the saxophone.' Purna Das, who has toured 120 countries and represented India at the WOMAD (the world's biggest festival of folk music) for years, explains that funds for Khyapa are being raised through private sponsors, 'so that the music is freewheeling and there's a platform for improvisation'. On Monday, while working out the logistics of Khyapa's maiden US tour with youngest son Dibyendu in his Dhakuria home, Purna Das spares a thought for Allen Ginsberg, the 'spiritual fountainhead' who had 'discovered' him and taken him westwards. 'Allen would have been one of the happiest men around at our fusion concerts had he been alive,' he says wistfully.