Told by	Pt. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
Obtained by	Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date	24th October, 2016
Place	S.A.P. Lab, Instrumental Department ,Rabindra Bharati University ,B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker	Sitar Maestro, Chair  Professor, Department of Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University
Tags	Manas Chakraborty, Tarapada Chakraborty, Teaching and Learning, 1920’s, Bandish, Satkari Malakar, Satcowridas, shrutidhar
Language	Bengali

Pt.Sanjoy Bandopadhyay speaks :

Verbatim:

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Verbatim: Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee

 Translation: 

 I had heard a story from my Guru  Manas Da, Pandit Manas Chakraborty, about his father  Pandit Tarapada Chakraborty when he was taking lessons from Satkari Malakar.

We know that Pandit Tarapada Chakraborty  was born in 1909. Probably in n the 1920s  he used to take lessons from Satkari Malakar.  We can see this  in that  a memorial program of Sri Manmotho Ganguly , held in 1940 both Satkari Babu and Tarapada Chakraborty performing  on the same stage. Satkari Babu was visually challenged. Tarapada Chakraborty pleaded  Sri Satkari Makalkar and started taking his training under  him, Tarapada Chakraborty used to walk miles to reach that venue. He used to walk to Satkari Babu’s house and learn music from him. After each day’s learning of the Bandish, he used to ask him about when he should come next. Satkari Babu used to ask him to come only after mastering the Bandish properly.  And he visited him the next day. Satkari babu, knowing who has come by the sound of people’s footsteps would say, “You had come just yesterday, and now again you are back! You have already became an Ustad or what” Then  he would ask him to sing what he has picked up so far and he sang the Bandish exactly the way he was taught a day back, since he was a ‘Shrutidhar’. Ultimately Satkari Babu  had to teach him another new Bandish, and this would continue. Manas Da also had told me that Satkari Babu could sing by hearing the sound of tarapada babu’s footsteps. He never got a chance to sit, and would sing from the threshold of his Guru’s house. He did not like the fact that his extremely talented pupil could learn and pick up the Bandish so easily and so fast. We have a notion that classical music is tough to learn and it takes a long time to pick up, but Tarapada Babu was very different in this respect. It was a great thing to be able to learn it so fast. A Bandish is so difficult to pick up, and to be able to learn it was considered a great thing to learn. From the side of the educators, they were extremely conservative about teaching it to others, and today, I feel the situation has somewhat changed.

Translated by:   Ankana Das.

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Edited & Designed: Ms. Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee

 

 

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