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Reflections on Raga Music Therapy: A 2020 Perspective
Bengali Translation ———– Hindi Translation This archival video documents my Bengali presentation delivered in 2020 during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, a period when people across the world were searching for emotional reassurance, mental balance, and meaningful human connection. The reason for my talk was my younger brother Ritwik Banerjee. Ritwik in those days…
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An Informal Proposal on Rāga Standardization to ITC-SRA (2002)
In 2001, I returned to Kolkata and joined Rabindra Bharati University. Shortly thereafter, I believe in 2002, ITC-SRA organized a national seminar on the Standardization of Rāgas, bringing together eminent musicians and scholars from across the country. Naturally, expectations were high. However, as the discussions unfolded, I felt a growing dissatisfaction with the direction and…
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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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Beyond the Hook: Why Raga Resists Popularity
The raga music and popular music sometimes sit on opposite ends of the cultural seesaw, each finding the other’s admirers a little alien. We can look at it from multiple reflective angles like: (a) visibility of the music genres, (b) framing and formatting of the musical contents, (c) properties of musical content, (d) effectivity of…
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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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Partially auto-generating publishable good-quality materials
Sanjoy Bandopadhyay Concept basis India has enough human resources to match or can be quickly updated to match most of the publication requirements. Expected benefits This document will assist in managing the academic publication system for the community that can use AI to its advantage. The identified difficulties during the process will generate areas where…
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Selected Papers Presented in Seminars and Conferences
Distance Education in Indian Music: Feasibility and Prospects – This paper was read as the concept paper in the International Seminar on Distance Education in Music held at Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, from 27 to 29 November 2000 [DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7143365] INDIA, MUSIC, AND INTERCULTURAL INTERACTIONS – The paper was presented at the UNESCO World Conference held…
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Some Lectures from CEC-UGC
In this page we picked and linked some YouTube videos on Research Methodology, videos published by the Consortium for Educational Communication, UGC. Introduction to Research Methodology This lecture focuses on ‘How to Select Research Problem?’ and other issues. Research Methodology : Qualitative Research (Content Analysis) Research Methodology : Visual Research Method Research Method : Case…
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Ancient Indian Musical Data Collection Method
Data collection and Presentation Strategy of Bharata, Matanga, Sarangadeva and other Ancient Authors… Anil Beohar talks… Posted on September 19, 2012 by sitardivine I had been to Khairagarh for a week from 08 to 15 September 2012 to teach a course. I thought it was a wonderful opportunity to reach today’s ace-musicologist Dr. Anil Beohar and talk to…
Pandit Sanjoy Bandopadhyay
Outstanding Musician, Prolific Guru, and Exemplary Academician
