'Ebar bujhi bholar bela holo...'

The icon of Rabindrasangeet (and now I am proud to say that my Guru) Suchitra Mirta is celebrating her 85th birthday today.At midnight a Calcutta-based news channel telecasted a special programme on her where the interviewer seemed to memorize the important dates of the singer's life probably 20 minutes before the interview.

It forced me to think certain questions.Are we, the fans of Suchitra Mitra disappearing? Are we forgetting the black and white photographs of IPTA?


...since morning I was recalling the tunes. recalling the lines 'gan diye je tomay khnuji.'On 24th August, 1996 at Rabindrasadan at a programme of Rabitirtha I got a few lines written by her. The interpretation of Rabindrasangeet by her, the visuals of tunes was perhaps the key of my understanding of the bani of Tagore songs.

This sunday I'll be one of the singers at this years' Rabitirtha programme at Rabindrasadan.how can I interpret the lines now after 12 years? the person who helped many of us to rethink and reinterpret Tagore songs, can we proceed to be a follower of her at all?