The music of Bengal, folk, maritime, popular, modern, revolutionary, avate-garde, even classically based, has typically been path-breaking for well over 100 years.  Even so, between the 1940s and late 1970s- it blossomed into multiple directions accompanied by composers, lyricists and of course performers of the very highest order who have set up a standard everything since those "Golden Age" decades have only been at best efforts at replic ...

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The music of Bengal, folk, maritime, popular, modern, revolutionary, avate-garde, even classically based, has typically been path-breaking for well over 100 years.  Even so, between the 1940s and late 1970s- it blossomed into multiple directions accompanied by composers, lyricists and of course performers of the very highest order who have set up a standard everything since those "Golden Age" decades have only been at best efforts at replicating the genius of that period.  I will post a series of articles highlighting the great creative figures of this epochal, post-renaissance period.

Authors Bio:

Monish R. Chatterjee received the B.Tech. (Hons) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from I.I.T., Kharagpur, India, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, in 1981 and 1985, respectively. Dr. Chatterjee was a faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering at SUNY Binghamton from 1986 through 2002. Dr. Chatterjee is currently with the ECE department at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Chatterjee, who specializes in applied optics, has contributed more than 100 papers to technical conferences, and has published more than 70 papers in archival journals and conference proceedings, in addition to numerous reference articles on science. Dr. Chatterjee's most recent literary essays appear in Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition, published by FDU Press (2004); Celebrating Tagore, published by Allied Publishers (2009); and Tagore: A Timeless Mind by ICCR and the London Tagore Society (2012). He is the author of four books of translation (Kamalakanta, Profiles in Faith, Balika Badhu and Seasons of Life) from his native Bengali. In 2000, Dr. Chatterjee received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2005, Dr. Chatterjee received a Humanities Fellows award from the University of Dayton to conduct research on scientific language. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE and a member of ASEE and Sigma Xi.