Subho Dasgupta Poet Wikipedia
Rozella Dibley
Born into a Baidya Brahmin family on 9 October 1929, Sudhindranath dasgupta, popularly known as Sudhin Dasgupta, was brought up at Darjeeling.[1] The ancestral house of his family was in 'Kalia' village, Jessore District, Bangladesh. His father, Mahendranath Dasgupta was a teacher at Darjeeling Govt. School. His mother was a social activist in those days.
Sudhindranath, alias Sudhin Dasgupta, was proficient in music from his early years. He could play various types of musical instruments with equal expertise, such as Sitar, Sarod, Harmonium, Piano, Mandolin, Piccolo, Guitar, Violin, Esraj etc., along with percussion such as Tabla and Drums.[2] He graduated in music from Royal School of Music London.
It was 1949-50 when Sudhin and his family had to shift permanently to Calcutta (Kolkata), initially at Srinath Mukherjee Lane and then to the house at Sinthi. This was the time when he gradually delved into the world of Bengali modern music. Apart from working as music assistant to the legendary music director Kamal Dasgupta, he maintained his responsibility of creating songs for the Calcutta North Squad of IPTA (Indian Peoples Theatres' Association). And a day came when Sudhin met Khitish Basu of His Master's Voice (HMV) who gave him the opportunity to compose Bengali modern music. The first two modern songs composed by him was Kato Asha Kato Bhalobasha and Keno Akash Hote recorded by Bechu Dutta in 1953. Eventually the versatile musical journey of Sudhin Dasgupta began which was consistent until the last day of his life.
The years of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s are considered as the golden era for Bengali modern song as well as Bengali basic song. During this period, Bengali music was enriched by contributions of numerous music directors and lyricists such as Gouri Prasanna Majumdar, Pulak Bandyopadhyay, Shaymal Gupta, Mintu Ghosh, Pronob Roy, Robin Chattopadhya, Pabitra Chattopadhya, Anol Chattopadhya, Anupam Ghatak, Anil Bagchi, Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Salil Chowdhury, Nachiketa Ghosh, Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Shyamal Mitra, Bhupen Hazarika and Sudhin Dasgupta. He was also known to be an excellent player of different Indian and Western musical instruments like Tabla, Sitar, Piano, Harmonium, Esraj, Violin and others.
Since his early years Sudhin Dasgupta was associated with the activities of IPTA (Indian People's Theatre Association), where his was befriended with many stalwarts of that time, such as Salil Chowdhury, Sourindra Mohan Sengupta, Ritwik Ghatak, Utpal Dutt, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Salil Chowdhury, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Jyotirindra Moitra, Debabrata Biswas and others. During this time Sudhin Dasgupta composed music for Thikana, a famous poem written by Sukanta Bhattacharya, which was sung at IPTA meetings by Sourindra Mohan during the Teachers' Movement in 1954. However, later another version of the song with music composed by Salil Choudhury was recorded and became very popular.[5]
The first Bengali song recorded in Sudhin's composition were in Bechu Dutta's voice: 'কত আশ কত ভলবস'[6] and 'কন আকশ হত'[7] in 1953. In basic Bengali song, Sudhin Dasgupta gifted the audience a number of super-hit tracks, including "Ei Jhir Jhir Batase", "Bhanga Torir Sudhu E Gaan", "Ami Taar Thikana Rakhini", "Ekta Gaan Likho Amar Jonno", "Oi Ujjwalo Din", "Saat Ronga Ek Pakhi", "Akash Eto Meghla", "Naam Rekhechi Bonolata" and many others. Again, he contributed both as composer and lyricist in many of the items. He worked extensively with all the legendary singers like Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Manna Dey, Dwijen Mukhopadhyay, Shyamal Mitra, Manabendra Mukhopadhyay, Satinath Mukhopadhyay, Sandhya Mukhopadhyay, Pratima Bandopadhyay, Arati Mukhopadhyay, Talat Mahmood, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mohammed Rafi etc. In the year 1967 itself both Sudhin and Salil presented Puja Albums containing ten songs each, such was the popularity of the duo.[8]
In 1957, Sudhin Dasgupta entered the Bengali Film industry as the music composer for film called "Ulka". His second film was "Dak Harkara" (1958), where famous Bengali novelist, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay contributed the lyrics. Sudhin never looked back and Bengali film industry got a series of mega hits from him like "Antaral", "Shankhabela", "Tin Bhuboner Pare", "Prothom Kodom Phul", "Chaddabeshi", "Picnic", "Har Mana Har", "Basanta Bilap", "Hangsaraj", "Amrito Kumbher Sondhane" and many more. In many of the films he acted both as the lyricist and the composer. He worked for around fifty Bengali films. While composing music for the film "Goli Theke Rajpoth" Sudhin inducted Manne Dey for the first time to make play back song in the lip of Uttam Kumar, in the song "লগ লগ লগ ভল্কর খল". The great trio, Sudhin Dasgupta, Uttam Kumar and Manna Dey produced several magical songs in films "Shankhabela", "Kokhono Megh", "Manjari Opera", "Chhadmabeshi", "Har Mana Har", "Raater Rajanigandha" etc. afterwards.
Bengali song has got a rich episode for the world of the kids and Sudhin Dasgupta contributed in that field too. He contributed to the music albums for the children, titled "Hingsute Doitto" and "Chotoder Ramayan".
Sudhin Dasgupta wrote lyrics for many songs. Immense popularity of these songs itself speak of the poetical values of these lyrics with their literary value. One of the first of his creations was the song he wrote for Subir Sen in 1954, Eto Sur Ar Eto Gaan, which had become a milestone in Bengali music world:
Sudhin Dasgupta actively responded through his pen to the distress of people in the time of partition in 1947 and afterwards. He created a few motivational songs during that time for the IPTA. During the Bangladesh war in 1971 too he created unforgettable songs paying homage to the birth of the New Nation and its founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman: Bangabandhu phire ele.
Rabindra Bharati University paid homage to this him by creating an archive, where life and works of three legenderay personalities of Bengal would be portrayed which includes Soumitra Chatterjee, Salil Chowdhury and him.[14]
Even the tribals of erstwhile Saontal Pargana have their own caste system. Mahata ( Mahto, Mahato) and Majhin (Majhi) consider themselves to be above the others. Linguists have conjectured (and some historians did accept the conjecture) on the basis of available literature that both the names cited above were government job titles. Majhi
1. West Bengal is historically correct. People of west bengal are different from East Bengal/Bangladesh culturally, linguistically. The whole united bengal was geographically many unique regions, and current west bengal consists of primarily Rarh, and part of Varendra regions. In current west bengal, people of both west and east origin live because of partition when a large no of east bengalis migrated to west bengal.
Many, if not most, Sen and Das last name folks added gupta to their last names at the turn of the nineteenth century. I do not have a good explanation for this but know that my grandfather did the same.
However, for many generations, my family used the last name Sen or Sen Sharma. I think many made the switch to indicate that they were Vaidyas as the Gupta last name is used by some original Vaidyas in Uttar Pradesh (I only learned this from a BBC show!)
Even Chitragupta was assigned a Caste! I wonder why. It might be symbolic to explain the reason why He was into writing and maintaining records. Anyways our great people!! Surnames were actually meant to be based on the job of the people from a community
On the other hand, It is natural and human tendency to linkup with some great personality, community, caste etc. to enhance his/her image/prestige in the society.
This is very particular, when one does not have his own personality. Therefore dont be upset if some one made certain comments on caste etc. please ignore gracefully.
Yes. The Debnath community is a branch of Brahmins. They are also called Nath or Rudraja brahmins. The brahmins were of two types in the ancient times. One that lead a domestic life and the other that use to sacrifice the domestic life and would go to forests or Himalayas and indulge in meditation. The Debnath community belongs to the later. As they would not indulge into a domestic life, the population of this community is also limited.
yes, debnath is east bengali surname because about 90 percent were from east bengal now from that 87% are living in North eastern states having majority in assam and tripura. but there population is very less in comparison to other bengali brahmins
Rudraj Brahmin/Yogi Brahmin/Nath Brahmin sampradaya is highest among the Brahmins. One Yogi Brahmin is equated with five Bipra or Brahmin. According to Bhagvat, Padmapuran, Brahmabaibarta puran eleven Rudra was created from the forehead of Lord Brahma, Mahan Rudara was the head of the eleven Rudras. Mahadev (Lord Shiva) is none other than Mahan Rudra. Since these Brahmins were originated from the Rudra, they arfe called Rudraj Brahmin. Since the Brahmins were pacticing Yoga, they are called Yogi Brahmin. In ancient times no other brahmins or persons were allowed to practice Yoga, the Yogi Brahmins were only the Gurus and prists of the people. Their only work was to teach people about the religious and other teachings.
Let us deal with the Dakshinatyas first, because these are the smallest. Migrating from Odisha, where they stilla re found in Mayurbhanj [Baripada, for example], including my family, these have settled in just 3 places in Bengal, primarily around Harinabhi in South 24-Parganas, Subhasgram- Kodalia, Changripota, where you will find the Bhattacharyas and Chakravartis, including the famous Shivanatha Shastri, Ashok Shastri and Gaurinath Shastri. Last, in Mukhberia in Medinipur, you will find a small group, the Nandas. The Dakshinatyas happen to include the few Samavedis in Bengal, of RanayanIya Shakha, along with the usual plethora of Yajurvedis. MM. Durgamohan Bhattacharya discovered in Odisha some Atharva-vedins of the Jaiminiya Shakha.