Told by	Somjit Dasgupta
Obtained by	Sanjoy Bandopadhyay and Troilee Dutta
Date	14 July, 2015
Place	Residence of Prof. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, 3/1/1D, Padmapukur Road, Kolkata 700092
About Somjit Dasgupta	Disciple of Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra. Preserving rare musical instruments including the instruments belonged to Pt. Radhika Mohan Maitra. He plays different instruments like Sarod, Surshringar, Mohan Veena, etc.
Tags	Radhika Mohan Maitra, Brojendra Mohan Maitra, Goshthababu, student quality bidi, Rajshahi,
Language	Bengali

Somjit Dasgupta speaks :

Paraphrase:

This is a most hilarious story once told by Sri Brajendra Mohan Moitra, father of Pandit Radhika Mohan Moitra, who was fondly known as ‘Buro Dadu’ or ‘Bhuro Dadu’ for his remarkable tummy. It was a lovely memory shared by a father about his legendary son.

Brajendra Mohan Moitra, Zaminder of Rajshahi estate was a person with strict principles. It was that era when smoking hookah, bidi in tender age was not a very big taboo. But Brajendra Mohan had set strict discipline for his children that made impossible for Radhu Babu to get any bidi or cigarette during his high school days. So he met the tobacco supplier of their estate and ordered him to make a special type of bidi for the students which would be very short in length so that the students could easily enjoy a whole bidi in two to three puffs between the class periods. The tobacco supplier became very confuse and afraid as he could not ignore the order of the elder son of a Zaminder. He asked Radhu Babu what would be the name of that special bidi. Radhika Mohan suggested as the bidi was particularly made for students then it should be named as‘Student quality bidi’. Thus the bidi came into existence and within a few days it became hugely popular among the High school students throughout Rajshahi.

One day Radhu babu was caught red handed by his Head master Gostho babu while smoking in a leisure mood sitting on a branch of a tree. He became enraged after finding his student in that state and ordered him to get down from the tree. Being a very mischievous in nature, Radhu babu told his Head master that he would prefer to get down after smoking as it was inevitable that he would be beaten at any circumstances. In a furious state Gosthobabu went to Brajendra Mohan Moitra to complain against Radhu babu. Hearing about Radhubabu’s deed, Brajendra Mohan Moitra got fumed and called Radhika Mohan for interrogation but as usual he  was not found anywhere in the house. Meanwhile Bhagawan babu who used to know his whereabouts, brought him from the bank of the river by pulling his ear and present him in front of his father and head master. But it was Radhu babu’s luck that his Grandmother came in between three angry persons, scold them for their mistreatment towards a young lad and rescue him.

Paraphrased by: Dr. Suranjita Paul

Data processed at SAP-DRS Lab, Department of Instrumental Music, RabindraBharati University