| Told by | Anindya Banerjee |
| Obtained by | Sukanya Sarkar |
| Date | 12 March, 2015 |
| Place | Residence of Anindya Banerjee, 50/1A Purna ddas Road, Kolkata |
| About Anindya Banerjee | Disciple of ustd. Ali Akbar Khan, Ustd. Dhyanesh Khan and other gurus. He plays sarod and surshringar. He is a well known writer of Indian Music with several publications to his credit. |
| Tags | Hemen Sen, Hiren Roy, Muraribabu, sitar, sarod, rabab, Japanese instrument, Nikhil Banerjee. |
| Language | English |
Anindya Banerjee speaks :
| Told by | Anindya Banerjee |
| Obtained by | Sukanya Sarkar |
| Date | 12 March, 2015 |
| Place | Residence of Anindya Banerjee, 50/1A Purna ddas Road, Kolkata |
| About Anindya Banerjee | Disciple of ustd. Ali Akbar Khan, Ustd. Dhyanesh Khan and other gurus. He plays sarod and surshringar. He is a well known writer of Indian Music with several publications to his credit. |
| Tags | Riyaz, practice, Nikhil Banerjee, sargam, three octaves, jod, palta, bol, gatkari, Abhijit Banerjee, Ravi Shankar, performance, incense, pakhawaj, alap, Aminuddin Dagar, Shadaj, Pancham, Hudak-Lahak, Shankar Ghosh, Anil Palit, wooden-top tabla. |
| Language | English |
Anindya Banerjee speaks :
| Told by | Dr. Manasi Majumder |
| Obtained by | Sukanya Sarkar |
| Date | 22 March 2015 |
| Place | Bengal Music College, CIT Scheme, Kolkata-700029 |
| On Manasi Majumdar | Dr. Manasi Majumdar is a disciple of the Vidushi Girija Devi and is a dedicated vocalist. She is currently serving as an Associate Professor at the Bengal Music College, Kolkata. |
| Tags | 1989-90, Sujata Sadan, Ashim Bandhu Bhattacherjee, Ranadhir Roy, Marwa, Mian Mallar, esraj, Rabindrasangeet |
| Language | Bengali |
Dr. Manasi Majumdar speaks:
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| Told by | Dr. Manasi Majumder |
| Obtained by | Sukanya Sarkar |
| Date | 22 March 2015 |
| Place | Bengal Music College, CIT Scheme, Kolkata-700029 |
| On Manasi Majumdar | Dr. Manasi Majumdar is a disciple of the Vidushi Girija Devi and is well known vocalist. She is currently serving as an Associate Professor at the Bengal Music College, Kolkata. |
| Tags | 1983-84, Rasid Khan, Ustad Nisar Hussin Khan Sahib, Garia, South Calcutta, Baithak |
| Language | Bengali |
Manasi Majumdar speaks:
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| Told by | Somjit Dasgupta |
| Obtained by | Sanjoy Bandopadhyay and Troilee Dutta |
| Date | 14 July, 2015 |
| Place | Residence of Somjit Dasgupta 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 | Vishmadev Chattopadhyay, Bhismadev, Anath Nath Bose, Duel voice singer, Radhika Mohan Maitra, Mushtaq Ali Khan, Gariahat, Begum Akhtar, Sachin Deb Burman, Rabindra Mohan Maitra, Keramatullah Khan, Mushtaq Ali Khan, 1950’s, |
| Language | Bengali |
Somjit Dasgupta speaks :
| Told by | Somjit Dasgupta |
| Obtained by | Sanjoy Bandopadhyay and Troilee Dutta |
| Date | 14 July, 2015 |
| Place | Residence of Somjit Dasgupta 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 | 1960-61, Radhika Mohan Maitra, Dr. S.R. Chandra, Kramatullah Khan, 1962, Chhaya Bihag, National Programme, Nabadeepa, Durgalal Sharma, Mohanlal Sharma |
| Language | Bengali |
Somjit Dasgupta speaks :
| Told by | Somjit Dasgupta |
| Obtained by | Sanjoy Bandopadhyay and Troilee Dutta |
| Date | 14 July, 2015 |
| Place | Residence of Somjit Dasgupta 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 | 1950, Nikhil Banerjee, Sunil Mukherjee, Arun Chatterjee, Surbahar, Sitar, Surshringar, Surrabab, Dil Bahar, 1956, |
| Language | Bengali |
Somjit Dasgupta speaks :
Verbatim:
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Verbatim: Dr. Suranjita Paul
Translation:
Sometimes, when he taught the techniques of playing sitar, he would play and teach.
-When was this?
This was in the early ‘50s. Nikhil Banerjee, Arun Chatterjee, Sunil Mukherjee, and Rajanikant Chaturvedi – these four were his disciples at the time. At this time, while he was playing the sitar, it might suddenly occur to him…someone had given a surbahar, it was in their room. So, he would show how to play that as well. He played the surshringar. At that time he might think…when he would train someone for the surshringar, he would teach all three types to Nrisinha babu. In the middle of that, he might think, how would it be if there was an instrument somewhere in the middle of these two. He had a sur rabab. But he never played it. He took the one Nrisinha babu had and played on it. That instrument is now with me. So, then he thought, what would it be like to make a new instrument? So he made something that was like the surbahar, but the body was made of calabash and wood. But the wooden body was cut like a calabash. Then it was covered with hide. The bridge was shorter than that of a surshringar, almost like that of a sarod. He said, “I have made an instrument after my own heart and taken the set of a surbahar, so I shall name it ‘Dilbahar’. He gave it for the first time to ArunChatterjee to play. He played it from the radio station in Patna.
Arunbabu passed away when he was quite young. He gave one to Rabi Sen and one is with me. This instrument, with its name, was created in 1956. It had been made a year before that, but it has been played, or was prepared to be played from ’56. No other recording of this instrument being played exists. When Arunbabu passed away, the instrument returned to Radhubabu. He gave it to Rabi Sen, but Rabi Sen never recorded for the radio. He made another instrument after this one. That instrument was called ‘Nabadeepa’.
Translated by: Sarbajaya Bhattacharya
http://sarodia.com/pandit-maitra-instruments/
http://sarodia.com/generation/pandit-radhika-mohan-maitra/
Edited &Designed: Dr. Suranjita Paul
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| Told by | Somjit Dasgupta |
| Obtained by | Sanjoy Bandopadhyay and Troilee Dutta |
| Date | 14 July, 2015 |
| Place | Residence of Somjit Dasgupta 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 | Rathin Chattopadhyay, Ata Hussein Khan, 1950, LIC, Thakur Jaidev Singh, Raja Chhatrapati Singh, Chhaya Bihag, Radhika Mohan Maitra, Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, Paresh Bhattacharjee. |
| Language | Bengali |
Somjit Dasgupta speaks :
| Told by | Somjit Dasgupta |
| Obtained by | Sanjoy Bandopadhyay and Troilee Dutta |
| Date | 14 July, 2015 |
| Place | Residence of Somjit Dasgupta 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 | 1940, Brojendra Mohan Maitra, court musician, Md. Amir Khan, Ustd. Enayet Khan, Rajshahi, 15 Sagruddin Lane, Kalabagan, Badal Khan, Birendra Kishore Roy Chaudhury, Park Circus, Raja Bazar, Dhruvatara Joshi, Fayyaz Khan, Garg, Mahishadal Rajbari, |
| Language | Bengali |
Somjit Dasgupta speaks :
| 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
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