Renowned percussionist Pt Subhankar Banerjee died after battling Covid-19 for two months at a private hospital in Kolkata, his family said on Thursday. Several classical musicians from Pt Tejendra Narayan Majumder, Pt Purbayan Chatterjee, Ustad Rashid Khan, Pt Bickram Ghosh are slated to attend Banerjee's last journey with Covid-19 protocols on Thursday from Sangeet Research Academy where his body was …
‘Could you see Zakir Saheb?’ I overheard the voice of an exhilarated mother asking her son the moment the ‘God of tabla’ stepped on the stage, the pair of tabla-bayan in hand. The faraway look of his eyes while weaving patterns were apparently focused at a point from where he could ‘see’ an entire universe of slow, slanting, swaying or …
