Told by	Ratan Kumar Sen
Obtained by	Sukanya Sarkar
Date	9th March 2015
Place	140 B Rasbehari Avenue, Workshop of Tapan Kumar Sen
About the speaker	Ratan Kumar Sen is an instrument manufacturer and exporter. He is the younger son of legendary instrument maker Hemendra Chandra Sen.
Tags	Ganga, Sarod, Amjad Ali Khan, 1969, 2010, Dover Lane Music Conference
Language	Bengali

Ratan Kumar Sen speaks:

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Verbatim:

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Verbatim: Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee

 Translation:

The Sarod of Amjad Ali khan, Ganga was made by my father in 1969.

My father, Sri Hemendra Chandra Sen  passed away in 2010 and we were doing his last rites on 14^th January suddenly Amjad sahaab’s secretary called. He informed us that his Sarod was broken by an air flight from Ahmedabad to Bombay and we had to fix it. So we asked him to send it to us. He had a performance in Dover Lane Music Conference on 25^th January. So we had a tight time frame. We got it the next day and fixed it within a week. When I delivered it to him he hugged it tightly, he loved his instrument so much. He played it in Dover lane and remembered my father and praised us lovingly. Afterwards this same Sarod got missing in British Airways and found again. He loves it so much that he plays  it in every programme till today, never let it go.

 Translated By: Arundhati Banerjee

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Edited & Designed: Ms. Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee

 

 

 

 

 

 

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