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সুরমণি, চুল, আর জয়ন্তী মল্লার
জনপ্রিয় তারকাদের সাধারণ মানুষের চুল ও সাজের ওপর প্রবল হস্তক্ষেপ চিরকালের| সে তারকা সিনেমা, রাজনীতি, খেলাধুলা, গান-বাজনা বা যে কোনও বিষয়েরই হতে পারে| 1970-এর দশকে ‘ভালো’ বিশেষণটা অনেকটাই পুরাতন ভিত্তিক ছিল| চুল ছোট-ছোট করে কাটা হত, এতে বেশিদিন চলে যেত| কিন্তু রূপালী পর্দায় বড় বড় চুল ওয়ালা নায়কের নাইকাকে ইমপ্রেস করা থেকে শুরু করে ভিলেনকে…
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যুক্তি-তক্ক-গপ্প ও পিনাকেশদা
অধ্যাপক পিনাকেশ সরকারকে সারা জীবন দাদা-ই বলে-ডেকে এসেছি। পাড়াতে ওই 24 ইঞ্চি ঘেরের ঢিলে পাজামা সাথে কখনও শার্ট বা পাঞ্জাবি, আর বাইরে খুব যত্নে কোঁচানো ধুতি সাথে বোতাম হাতার পাঞ্জাবি – একেবারে কিলার চেহারা| পিনাকেশদার সাহিত্যিক, কবি, ও বিদগ্ধ চিন্তক বৃত্তে একটা জাঁদরেল উপস্থিতি ছিল। 1960-র দশকে বাংলায় কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে দাদার বিএ অনার্স আর এমএ…
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Unrecorded Music: A Story of Friends, Faith, and Feedback
हिंदी अनुवाद I I can’t quite recall the year—perhaps sometime around 1987. After joining Khairagarh University, my Kolkata address was almost always the same: Didibhai and Dadabhai’s home at 7C Bondel Road. But the true battleground of my musical life lay across the small park at Ballygunge Fari, 91/2B Bondel Road—at Jon Barlow’s place. That’s…
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Good Music connecting Sundaresan, Ramanathan, Bruno Nettl, AND 2025 podcast
Hindi Translation Scroll down to the end for the Podcast audio Back in the 1990s, when I was at Khairagarh, a question often kept me awake at night — What is good music?One day, I scribbled a few rough lines trying to capture my restless thoughts. They were not polished, not even properly structured —…
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Thoughts on how to connect Music Education with NEP-2020
हिंदी अनुवाद Abstract before the script This talk delivered by Professor Sanjoy Bandopadhyay on September 21, 2025 at the M.S. University, Vadodara [India] explores the alignment of Hindustani rāga music with the transformative vision of India’s National Education Policy 2020 (NEP-2020). It argues that music, beyond its role as performance art, functions as a catalyst…
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Throwback to 1998: A Dream Called “Computer Music”
I feel immense joy remembering my inspiring and action-packed collaboration with Dr. Bernard Bel, a visionary computer scientist of global repute. He was the catalyst who helped me push the boundaries of tradition by dreaming up the inclusion of Computer Music in Indian university education — at a time when “digital” was still a whisper…
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Dr. Pragya Pyasi
Dr. Pragya Pyasi, an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Hyderabad, specializes in Hindustani classical music (Sitar). A disciple of Pt. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Dr. Pragya earned her M.A. and M.Phil. from Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh (University Topper), and a Ph.D. from Bhatkhande Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, Lucknow. She qualified for the UGC-NET in 2012.…
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Bilasi-Yaman | An Accidental Raga
Born on 22 May 2024 at 9:40 a.m. IST Sanjoy Bandopadhyay On May 22, 2024, during an insightful musical session with Dr. Adrian McNeil, we explored the concept of how murcchanā can transition focus from the hands to the mind, effectively diminishing physical awareness while playing an instrument. The above audio example of Bilasi-Yaman was…
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Best Paper Award to Pragya
I am indeed thrilled that on September 23, 2023, Naad Nartan felicitated Dr. Pragya Pyasi with the Best Paper award for their 2022 National Seminar organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Pragya is the first among my disciples to get felicitated for excellence inacademic writing! Her paper titled ‘Do the…
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Pandit Radhika Mohan Maitra’s pedagogy
It was the 1st of February 2021. I was leisurely thinking of my half-pant days, my school, my tiny sitar, Ustadjee. Suddenly my phone rang. It was Ms. Shailaja Khanna from New Delhi. Shailaja is a regular columnist of Music for several renowned Indian dailies. She wanted me to talk about the pedagogy of my Ustadjee and…
Pandit Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
Outstanding Musician, Prolific Guru, and Exemplary Academician
