Gandhi did not condemn the scientific temper of the West, but he objected to the use of scientific discoveries against humanity. In fact, as history proves, most scientific and technological advances were made during war with the objective of destroying the countries and people on the other side— with little qualms about them being an inextricable part of one common humanity.
More than a year before this, on 22 May, 1870, Sourindro Mohun Tagore, the man behind this entire initiative, gave a public lecture on music at the Calcutta Training Academy premises as part of the third session of Jatiya Sabha.
This humaneness spread across his characters where almost all the protagonists were not only ordinary men and women but also either failures in life or marginal people, side-tracked by the mainstream.
Her original name Fatima A Rashid was changed to Baby when her film career began as a child artist at just five or six years. Her first role as leading lady was when she was just 14 in Mehboob’s film Taqdeer opposite Motilal.
Tarapada Chakraborty was revered by all his peers in the field of Hindustani classical vocal music. “The Nation” magazine, after his performance at the All Bengal Music Conference in 1949, wrote: “He according to his showing at the conference may with good reason be called classical musician No.1 of Modern Bengal.”
In the 1980s, he had done a series called Anti-Burqa from which a mother-daughter portrait made it to the cover of Desh, the prestigious Bengali literary magazine.
Touring with Maharaj ji has been the most enriching learning experience of my musical career. Every tour around the globe meant new places, new people and new music. Our mornings would be filled with stories of Maharaj Ji’s life, his performances, recollecting thumri, dadra, ghazals from the past and endless musical adda.
Neil Nongkynrih was an unusual man. He passed away quietly early this month, on 5th January at the relatively young age of 51, rendering his 25-member team of the Shillong Chamber Choir orphans.
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