Joy Nitai… a call that everyone uses to greet the other in villages like Ketugram in Burdwan. For these are the villages that still hold on to the traditional music of Bhorai Kirtan, a branch of Vaishnava cult songs that saw its birth in Bengal.
Bengal has always been the land of music and musicians. But one instrument that has hardly been much talked about is the wind instrument of Shehnai. Though this instrument is often mis-understood as one that is popular in only North India, interestingly Bengal had produced
With new film releases postponed, live performances and social events cancelled, and recordings stalled, India’s entertainment industry has been hit particularly hard by the Covid crisis. Most of 2020 was spent simply trying to survive the disastrous economic impact of an unprecedented pandemic, with marketing
Rahul Sen is the editor of Bibhab Magazine. A reading enthusiast. Collector of old songs, recordings and literary works. On December 15, a man named Sudhir Chakraborty left all material con-cerns far behind and stepped out into the wide unknown. The man who walked ‘Along Deep
A baul singing to his freedom with an Ektara, through the lush green meadows of Bengal is a common sight in paintings and literature. But Ektara is not an indigenous instrument just confined to Bengal and a baul legacy. Instead, it can be traced to
DEBDUTTA GUPTA & PARTHA DASGUPTA In addition to Bankura district,Bishnupur Gharana music was practiced in Murshidabad too. In 1905, Maharaja Manindra Chandra Nandi of Murshidabad, opened the first honorary music school there. Presently, its condition is almost worn out. The Baharampur Music Society School was also
A middle-aged man walking absent-mindedly on the road. His leaky pen has already created a graffiti on his shirt pocket, but he is oblivious of everything around him as he walks with his eyes fixed on the road. He takes long strides as he has
A global musical phenomenon is ringing through the corridors of a well-known Kolkata school. The Music Department of Don Bosco has engineered launch of a project where artists from across the globe come together to spread the message of love, hope and unity. Named as
“Welcome the Berliner Philharmoniker into your home – on your TV, computer, tablet or smartphone. Live or on-demand from our archive,” reads the exhortation from the venerable Berlin Philharmonic Opera, a 138-year-old institution now adapting to the winds of change, a change forced upon performing
In his poem Suchetana, Jibanananda Das has written: ‘In the hands of tired yet tireless sailors like us/ we shall build, not today but on the last dawn’ Any artist is like that sailor, who weaves the dream of an eternal journey. Hence the artistic journey