Gurujit/Gurjit Singh from Durgapur has become a music sensation on the Zee Bangla Saregama TV show. I have just been listening, alongwith my mother, to his rendition of Ramprosad's famous song
মন রে কৃষিকাজ জাননা ,
এমন মানবজমিন রইলো পতিত
আবাদ করলে ফলতো সোনা। ...
Wonderful. Here you can listen to him singing another very well-known shyamasangeet number,
আমার সাধ না মিটিল আশা না পুরিলো
সকলি ফুরায়ে যায় মা।
Young Gurujit apparently lives somewhere close by. I hope to meet him someday. It is people like him who keep me abidingly in love with India, despite all the horror, ugliness, vulgarity and triviality that I have seen.
I wonder whether they think deeply about the lyrics as they sing?
Readers interested in my taste in this matter are welcome to look up an old post titled Ah, music!
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