Friday, December 11, 2009

From Academics to Advocacy

http://www.cry.org/resources/pdf/CRYinAction2008.pdf
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

The Musical memories: Present Perfect ??

Suddenly I found a page from www.wordpress.com where I have got some comments form some known and unknown people. Here is a link of the page:


http://ifellows2006.wordpress.com/fellows/dripta-piplai/



Also another link of my songs (noise and talks in between are to be ignored) from www.esnips.com which was recorded and uploaded by my friend Arundhati from Mysore, India. You can get lots of 'deviations' here, and I do not know how to define deviation in Rabindrasangeet. Most of the songs were learnt from my Gitabitan days. A few learnt by 'listening'only, and one or two from 'Rabimanjusha', New Delhi. After sometimes, I joined Rabitirtha, special class of my 'idol' Suchitra Mitra. Unfortunately, this recording does not have a single song which I had learnt from Suchitradi's class-as the recordings were done before I joined the institute.
My experience in Rabitirtha was very different from that of Gitabitan. It is not because of the time or maturity, the main reason was my identity was quite different there. I was a totally unnoticed student sitting at a corner of the class, observing a new zone of power-game inside the class. As I was a gradute from a different music school, I got an advantage of being unnoticed. Have a plan for working on the issues of my interest on Tagore songs again, some day..and I'm sure that my experience of being the 'topper of Gitabitan' to 'back bencher of Rabitirtha' will surely help me to move into a deeper area of the less-researched domains.

I have forwarded the link to some of my friends who like to listen to my songs, but those of you couldn't get the link may click on the following:

http://www.esnips.com/doc/03d80fa5-5768-45e0-868f-7c8a424704c2/rabindra-sangeet