Aikatan by Raja Bhattacharya [Hardcover]

Music pervades each nook and cranny of our massive country, India. Varied genres, forms, instruments come together in this unifying mélange that transcends the barriers of language, age caste and region. Raja Bhattacharjee, known to take keen interest in music as much as he is a well-known author, has written about different people in different circumstances with the commonality of music in this book. Far from the mainstream, ‘Aikatan’ hits a different note, a profound, introspective one that leaves you beaming. In this Bengal, in the broadest sense, the sound and sound are spread in the wilderness, mountain forest, on the way of the ancient country spread across the Himalayas. How many types, how many genres of music. Gonsai sings the Baul song to the rhythm of the train, the homeless saint sings the song of his supreme man, the mind flies away to a distant place in that song. Rabindranath again disobeys the ban of the classroom and hums in the voice of a night awake teenager of Lalpara, the song he does not know the meaning of, yet he sings with a desperate urge. These songs are played in the sea of ??Puri, all the songs and all the tunes are mixed together and become one in the sea of ??infinite melody. This melody, this song, this language, binds this vast country of many nations, many languages, many religions, which is called India. The author wants to capture that tone in this book. This book of another taste is not a book of songs, but a book of stories with songs and tunes. Human songs, human stories, in which love is embodied.